On Monday 18 Feb 2013 16:40:14 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I am installing 12.3 RC1 on a machine that happily runs earlier versions of openSUSE. The graphics is, admittedly, an older ATI Rage XL (MACH64). It runs as a server, and this is on the MB. It is usually only seen during install.
My laptop has a ATI mobility display and i couldn't install 12.1 on it, 12.2/123 installs but i can't watch any BBC iPlayer or youtube that uses flash, the plugin just crashes. I think graphical setups/configs (or something) in 12.x has issues with ATI
The install was a bit of a PITA because, no matter what display I used, I could not get a graphic install to work. I tried setting various resolutions and even 'No KMS' in the initial install screen. The screen would go black, and I could do nothing. No virtual terminals. Nothing. Eventually I had settle for the text install.
The text install went rather okay. Quite impressive. I expected that when I did a text install, perhaps the installed GRUB2 would also be set up to be text based. This seems not to be the case. So, when the system rebooted to do the second part of the install, where things like the root password are set, I just got a blank screen. The second part did not happen.
So I now have a machine where:
* grub2 is installed, but it will not provide a menu. Eventually it does the default and boots, resulting in a graphic login screen - which works - even though grub2 does not manage it's graphics.
* there is no root password, so I cannot do any system configuration. I can log in as a user (made during the first phase of the install) and run KDE.
What I would really like to do is (1) get grub2 to work, perhaps in text mode and (2) set a root password so I can proceed to set things up.
Any suggestions? Especially the root password part.
Yours sincerely,
Roger Oberholtzer
Ramböll RST / Systems
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