On 07/15/2018 12:30 PM, James PEARSON wrote:
The installation of Leap 15.0 stops abruptly at boot menu right after I select "Leap 15.0" to initiate the installation : Loading initial kernel... Loading initial ramdisk...
I suspect the install is not actually stuck, but a NMI handler and watchdog timer probably detected a "soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 22s!" (or 23s -- both are common). When this occurs, it triggers a length check on startup where the kernel will dump all registers on each CPU core and verify all interrupts only to find out that everything is actually OK -- and then complete the boot. The only problem is **this can take up to 5 minutes** where there is no indication of what is happening. No doubt your pulled to plug long before that amount of time elapse (there is no way you could tell what was going on) If you do try it again. When it looks stuck at:
Loading initial kernel... Loading initial ramdisk...
Start a timer and let a full 6:30 seconds elapse before you do anything else. If the boot does ultimately succeed, then if you can get to a xterm or console (perhaps at the end of the install, but before reboot) Save the dmesg output, e.g. $ cd ## make sure you are in your (or roots) home directory $ mkdir tmp ## make a tmp directory $ dmesg > tmp/$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)_dmesg ## save dmesg in file The command substitution $(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) just appends the date and time to the beginning of the output filename, e.g. you would see in tmp/ something similar to: 20180716_030147_dmegs Then upload the result of dmesg to http://paste.opensuse.org/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org