Hi "Chip5",

Which main board do you have? As I don't know which main board you have you might have 2 SATA controllers. Which SATA controller are you using for raid. Or do you have a raid card installed, if so which brand/model?

I think this issue related to raid.

Regards,

Joop.

On Wed, April 11, 2012 10:17 am, Chip5 - wrote:

I am installing from a full DVD obtained at the recent Los Angeles Linux Conference/Expo.I haven't yet found the chipset that is being used in the system. The disk works successfully on my older AMD Athlon.

1. When system is started, the green openSUSE

"Welcome" screen appears, followed by the openSUSE Installation choices menu screen. When the “Install” option is chosen, system displays a window showing “Loading Linux Kernel” (with an increasing % progress line).

3. Instead of the expected License Agreement and Language

screen, the system displays AMIBIOS information including hardware test details, RAID details, "ISOLINUX 4.04 ...",then goes back to the openSUSE “Welcome” screen. System repeats this tight loop until I choose “Install from hard disk” option from the openSUSE installation choices menu screen. System then loads Win7.

Here are the BIOS Setup Utility details: Main

1st Drive      ST31...AS

2nd Drive     None

3rd Drive     None

4th Drive      hp DVD-RAM GH60LI

Installed Memory     8192 MB/PC3-1600

Memory Bank 1        Not Installed

Memory Bank 2        Not Installed

Memory Bank 3        4096 MB DDR3 SDRAM

Memory Bank 4        4096 MB DDR3 SDRAM

BIOS Revision         6.12   05/04/2011

Advanced

CPU Type: AMD Phenom II X6 1065T Processor

CPU Speed: 2.90 GHz

Cache RAM (L2): 3MB

Cache RAM (L3): 6MB

Primay Video Adapter         PCI-E

SATA Controller                 Enabled

SATA Controller                 RAID

Onboard LAN                      Enabled

-Other details: LAN,WLAN,1394

Power

NX (No Execute)                 Enabled

Virtualization Technology    Disabled

Boot

Boot Device Priority

1st Boot Device       CDROM Group

2nd Boot Device      HDD Group

3rd Boot Device       Floppy Group

4th Boot Device       Network Boot Group -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+owner@opensuse.org

Given that it's a commercially created media, it's unlikely due to a bad burn (although you didn't say if had actually tried the "check installation media" option.

On 04/11/2012 03:17 AM, Chip5 - wrote:

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Virtualization

Technology Disabled

Well, with that setting, it's definitely NOT the IOMMU issue.

I suspect that Dieter Klünter <dieter_at_dkluenter_dot_de> was cossect when he wrote:

The culprit most likely is the UEFI settings. Check the bios and set

UEFI to legacy mode

and modify boot options.

I didn't see any such options in the BIOS settings you displayed, but you didn't ID the mainboard nor the model of HP computer. That info would be helpful, as well.

Does the machine boot up successfully with any "Live" media (openSUSE, Ubuntu, Knoppix)?