I'm having the same issue on Beta4, and will be updating BZ 430284 momentarily. Bayard --- On Fri, 9/26/08, Holger Sickenberg wrote:

From: Holger Sickenberg Subject: Re: [opensuse-testing] Unable to boot Beta1 on my HP dv9000z To: "Bayard Coolidge" Cc: opensuse-testing@opensuse.org Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 3:32 AM Hi Bayard,

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I downloaded the DVD via Ktorrent and verified the md5sum.

I am trying to install 11.1 Beta 1 onto a partition on my USB drive; I've been successful in the past with 11.0.

My laptop is an HP dv9000z, which is in the same family as the dv6000, although mine has an AMD X2 64bit CPU, and NVIDIA graphics.

When I attempt to boot off of the DVD, the installation program (v3.3.3) starts, runs udev successfully, then says "loading basic drivers...", and then sits there. I'm not sure how long I'm supposed to wait, but 5 minutes should have been long enough. I also attempted it with the 'noapic' boot flag, with the same result.

I realize that every laptop has its quirks, and in the past, I found that stopping and starting the USB drive (to create an interrupt and wake things up) seems to help. This time, I'm stumped.

Anyone have a suggestion about what to do, such as a boot-time argument? I'm not sure what "broken modules" to ask it to skip, although I don't think I'm even getting close enough to that part of the installation for it to consider skipping any modules.

It sounds like a known problem https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406632 which should be already fixed in Beta 1. So please file a bug report at http://bugzilla.novell.com/

Thanks a lot, Holgi

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