When you can select the install, ... install ACPI disabled, ... install save mode, there are menu items at the bottom of the screen. One says, I believe options and it is usually set to your screen geometry. So something like 1024x768. You can select that menu by the function key that is displayed next to it. If I recall right it is F3.
ok i got it changed to text mode
Change it to text mode. Then the whole installation will be done with the text mode installation.
Also, changing the selection from "install" to "install ACPI disabled" is the menu. That menu change does a change in the line at the lower half of the screen starting with:
i selected "install ACPI disabled"
boot: ....
So when you change the menu, you will see how in that line suddenly different parameter are listed after the "boot:".
You can go to that line and add your own kernel parameter.
then i see the boot text scrolling and it stops at PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) i let it sit for 10mins and it does nothing....any other ideas? Suse has always ran on any system ive tried it on, but this one has got me stumped...