On 2/11/2012 11:32 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
Well, it appears I won't try openSUSE after all. I burned, and verified, another 64 bit DVD. Booted it with and without "nomodeset". No joy. Still gets to the splash screen and sits there. Downloaded and burned/verified the 32 bit version. Same thing. Maybe another time.
I also told you to try both nomodeset and text at the same time, which I don't see you saying you did. With text and nomodeset you shouldn't get any splash. No gui at all, not even switching to a high resolution text mode, just BIOS 80x25 text, safe as houses. At least it _should_. I'm really not sure there is a really "safe as houses" option anymore. For one thing, the boot loader already uses graphics before you have any chance to prevent it, but that graphics should be ok in all but really headless situations like serial console. It doesn't matter how it always used to work. Many things have fallen by the wayside lately and more are in the process of changing as we speak. The reason we're saying maybe video driver problems is because now there are video card drivers right in the kernel, and sometimes they choke on the same hardware where the old basic framebuffer code worked fine. One reason to try kernel commandline options to disable all video access is not just to see if it allows you to install using the text-mode installer, but also to prevent the screen from blanking out and/or hiding the kernel console messages behind a splash image. If the console is never reset during boot, then you should see any error messages, or at least see the last non-error message before it hangs, and maybe the keyboard won't lock up and maybe you'll be able to Alt-F2 F3...F9 to see the other logs that get written to those other virtual console screens. I don't blame you for being annoyed. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org