On 04/05/2012 02:50 AM, Chip5 - wrote:

Hey openSUSE community, What would be the fastest way to check the hardware of my newer computer (AMD Phenom X6 by HP, large hard disk, Win7 pre-installed) for compatibility with openSUSE 12.1 to see if the hardware is causing the installation dvd to fail in a loop early in the setup? The installation works normally as expected when tested in an older AMD Athlon 64 3200+ laptop.

My initial reaction is that this is due to: 1) Installation media or 2) IOMMU issues For category 1: Are you installing from the full DVD, or a LiveCD, or a USB stick? If it's optical media, I have seen situations where not all machines can read my media. Do a media check on the machine that's the installation target before doing the install. For category 2: What chipset is being used? Assuming that it's akin to an AMD 990/970 NB, what's the IOMMU setting(s) in the BIOS. It seems (to me) that very few mobo vendors get the BIOS correct to support the IOMMU functionality in chipsets since the 890 series. Typical manifestations include: no USB or network functionality. Since you don't say WHERE the looping occurs, it may be do to an I/O problem. Note that the Athlon 64 3200+ and associated chipsets did not have the IOMMU functionality (indeed, they had NO virtualizaton support). -- Ron Widell | Disclaimer, dat-claimer... r_widell<at>bwig<dot>net | if she's mine, I'll claim 'er. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+owner@opensuse.org