On 2013-05-13 10:57 (GMT+0200) Roger Oberholtzer composed:
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.
Hardware info is all available if the system is multiboot and still boots another install, or if for the purpose you do some kind of live media boot that doesn't have the same problem.
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.
AFAIK, kexec_reboot never triggered text-based installation. And we all know all web docs are always up to date, right? :-p When I wrote that I should have mentioned I believe that particular doc item is wrong. Take a look at: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2012-07/msg00072.html I was unable to locate a bug report that confirms that thread's assertion. -- "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