On 2013-05-13 07:31 (GMT+0200) Roger Oberholtzer composed:
I have a SuperMicro computer on which I seem unable to install openSUSE (11.2, 12.1 or 12.3). I can install Windows XP and CentOS 5.5. But not openSUSE. The machine has been back to the supplier, who claim they can find nothing wrong with it.
I can do the first part of the install up to and including when the system is copied to the hard disk. After that, the system is reboot to finish the install.
When the kernel is booting, it gets so far as to printing
Switching to clocksource tsc
and then nothing more can be done. No keyboard control is possible.
I have tried every kernel command line option I know to see if I can
Do you know them all? e.g. those listed on http://en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc
effect a change. Nope. It stops dead at this point.
Have you tried the other type of keyboard, PS/2 vs. USB? What USB support setting is in the BIOS?
What could the issue be?
Lots of things. How about narrowing the possibilities by describing more, including sharing some hardware specifications, like age of PC, which video chip (& onboard?; PCIe vs AGP vs PCI), CPU, RAM, installation type (network vs DVD vs PXE, etc; minimal vs KDE vs Gnome or other), grub version installed (have you only tried the default Grub2?), storage system bus type (PATA/SATA/SCSI; controller chip), etc.? You might wish to try another install using kexec_reboot=1 on installation cmdline. It might get you into a usable first boot from which you can more easily collect installation logs to share (e.g. attach to a bug report). -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org