https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723073 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723073#c6 --- Comment #6 from andreas bittner <abittner@stud.fh-heilbronn.de> 2011-10-27 17:02:50 UTC --- wow, this situation is becoming worse the more i try to find out whats wrong. so i did a completely clean install (all partitions delete/recreate) directly with 12.1/rc1/x64 default install. the very same effect at the end of the install process.... it says its going to try kexec instead of doing real boot. after that box of text with the ****************** around it, there is actually another line telling that nscd or so is starting or shutting down or so. the disk i/o activity is actually hinting that kexec (and also during normal boots, non-failsafe normal modes) is actually trying or doing something, but nothing normal ever happens. so i waited for 10minutes at least, then tried some ctrl+alt+del on the ps2 and usb keyboards many times, waited more, nothing happens. tried to use the atx-powerbutton, sometimes the disk i/o led and activity is doing something, flickering, clicking on the disks. nothing happens. so reset button as last resort. then i try to go for failsafe-mode, thats the only mode that actually does something. as this attempt was a completely clean install of 12.1/rc1/x64, the system boots somewhat, and then suddenly crashes/exits into textmode and the textmode yast2 installer comes up and says the last attempt of install failed or so and it tries to continue this way without graphics and in some sort of fallback mode. it takes really long until it manages to activate a standard pcie/onboard realtek gigabit network device, then it does some suseconfig or whats that script called parts, with fonts and settings and so on, and then surprisingly manages to start right there back into graphics mode (still being in failsafe-boot) and presents a kde/kdm logon screen but no username/icon(?) is given, so i manually enter my testuser and password, and it brings me here, where firefox 7.0.1 works, but the green opensuse welcome screen icon doesnt do anything, but errors and complains about missing stuff on disk. so anyways, even a clean install of this 12.1/rc1/x64 is rather unusable, and this result cannot be called a normal install, and the previous attempts did not qualify for the word "upgrade". i can attach these 12.1/rc1/x64 cleaninstall logs from this system if anyone cares, and/or do some more clean-11.4/x64-to-12.1/rc1/x64 upgrade this time, maybe that gives yet again different results, but i highly doubt it. regards. p.s. things that seem odd in contrast to previous opensuse versions is, that some of the logs and during failsafe-boot (of the beta1-to-rc1 tries) and half-finished logs hint that all kinds of drivers or kernel components actually try to upload or use various nonexisting or failing firmware parts, even my realtek pcie nic has a line where some kernel part tries to upload new firmware to it, and also the ati pcie radeon hd 6970 graphics card has lines about nonexisting cayman firmware files and whatever. this sound really weird....... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.