Jim Sabatke wrote:
OK, I've done two installs and both had almost the exact same problems, they wouldn't reboot after the install. I've really never had a problem installing a SuSE distro until Leap. The first was on my desktop, which has 4 SATA drives. I initially used the installer's recommended configuration, with / on sda and /home on sda. That refused to boot, with a blank screen on reboot, until I put /home on sda. Then it went perfectly.
That sounds totally odd. I think it's highly unlikely that this has actually to do with what's being mounted where. FWIW, I have two Leap systems - a test desktop, nvidia graphics, boots from software raid1. a server with very basic graphics, booting from iSCSI.
Then I tried to load Leap on a friend's laptop. He had only one drive, so I figured it would be easy. Same problem on reboot with a blank, unresponsive screen.
Sounds like a graphics issue, in both cases perhaps. You're an experienced user - did you try switching to a virtual console, Ctrl-Alt-F1 ? It's been a little while since I've dabbled with difficult graphics cards, my desktops are all fairly backlevel hardware-wise. Did you try using "nomodeset"?
I only mentioned how long I've been using SuSE to give you an idea how unusual and unexpected these problems were.
Okay.
I suspect I'll be forced to go back a version or two, but I worry about security upgrades in the future. So, if anyone can shed light on this, I'd be really grateful.
When a system produces a blank screen, it's always good to know if's responsive or not. For instance, do the numlock and capslock lights switch on and off when the keys are pressed? Can you switch to a virtual console? Can you ping the machine from elsewhere? How about ssh access from another machine? If the machine doesn't respond to any of this, how about Ctrl-Alt-Sysrq-B? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.4°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org