On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 02:44 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
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
No one knows all the kernel command line options. The Failsafe boot does contain the ones known to usually cause issues. All those have been tried to no avail.
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?
We have changed RAM, hard disk, all connected devices (keyboard and mouse). The video card is an average NVIDIA of the type we use everywhere. My money is on the BIOS. SuperMicro have had the system returned and they claim this is not the case. Not sure I agree. But I an mot in a position to prove them wrong...
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.?
I realize my report was a bit sketchy. Since the system freezes so early in the boot process, I never get a chance to see how Linux views the hardware. I know that the kernel and environment used during the install is not the same as that in the final installation. And the install kernel seems to work, as the install seems to complete. It is after booting in to the installed kernel that things go pear shaped.
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).
Should kexec_reboot=1 trigger a text-based installation? The openSUSE docs claim that =1 is the default. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org