On 03/07/12 17:03, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm not sure this is the right place to report this and apologize in advance if factory is the wrong venue.
No, this is the correct list to talk about something which is yet to be released. [.....]
Alas, I couldn't get it installed. I tried two times, the first with a custom install using a 100-mb ext-2 boot partition, an 8-GB swap, a 24-GB root partition using Reiser with the free-hog for /export/home also with Reiser.
I just (re-)installed Beta #2 a few days ago, but on a desktop. I do not have any boot partition - I simply allowed the partitioner to "create" a swap partition, a /home partition, and the /root partition in the sizes it decided I needed for my 1TB HDD. I use ext4 and not reiserfs.
The install proceeded to the first boot when it issued a warning that grub2 couldn't install on an unmountable partition.
I think that this is where the problem lies. Do NOT use Grub2. Use the (original) grub. Posts here from various people have indicated that grub2 has problems. During the installation process, when you get the menu immediately before you actually confirm that you want to install the system, edit the Boot Loader and choose Grub and not the default Grub2.
The screen gave me the option of changing things around and I then selected grub1.
OK, I see that you did try this.
Grub seemed to work okay and a green screen with the Gecko and fuzzy white blobs floating around appeared. A white progress bar also appeared. I let it go for a bit but the only things that happened was the fuzzy blobs stopped moving around as much, but the progress bar continued to move right at a very slow pace.
At the end of the first stage of the installation you are told that the system will now reboot. In my case this is simply a nothing-statement as the system does NOT reboot - I have to manually reboot the system. BUT it is here that you need to do following to get beyond the system going into slow-as-molasses mode after the blobs finally come together into a single blob: at the grub boot menu add the command 'nomodeset' OR boot using the SAFE MODE. Once the rest of the installation is completed, install the correct video driver for your system. [.............] BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.8.4 and kernel 3.4.4 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org