Hi everyone, Ok, I have been scouring the lists and the forums to try and make sure I get this right, but something weird has come up, and I haven't seen the same problem. This is on my laptop only. I did not do a clean install, but an upgrade from 12.1 (I know this is inadvisable, but I tend to fiddle around). The upgrade actually went pretty well, and of course it kept grub legacy. The only thing that was hard was that when I would do "suspend to disk" on closing the lid, when I would go to power back up, sometimes the screen would hang and not boot up. I would end up hitting the reset button. It never did this in 12.1, and since I have 12.1 still running on another partition, I checked the graphics driver to see if the hang and blank screen were due to a bad graphics driver. It was exactly the same as on 12.2. This was the output of hwinfo --gfxcard: 09: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.319] Unique ID: _Znp.NM4Dfup9NW6 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Intel VGA compatible controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x0126 SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x0116 Revision: 0x09 Driver: "i915" Driver Modules: "drm" Memory Range: 0xdd000000-0xdd3fffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0xe000-0xe03f (rw) IRQ: 43 (5976 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00000126sv00001043sd00000116bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: i915 is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Primary display adapter: #9 Since this is the same in 12.1 as in 12.2, and it doesn't hang on bootup or restore from hibernate in 12.1, this makes me think this is not a graphics driver issue. However, I may be wrong - anyone have an idea on that? In any case, I decided to upgrade to grub2, seeing if the bootloader would make a difference. I went to yast2, selected bootloader, with the following options, as per Michael's response in an earlier thread: YAST2 - Boot Loader Boot Loader: GRUB2 Boot Loader Location: tick Boot from Root Partition tick Boot from Extended Partition Boot Loader options: tick Set active flag in Partition for Boot Parition tick Write Generic Boot Code in MBR tick User graphical console Console Resolution: Autodetect by grub2 Console Theme: /boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt The difference being that in mine, I have the root in an extended partition, and so I checked that box as well. Grub2 installed, and when I went to reboot, I got the black grub2 screen with the menu options, etc. On boot to 12.2, the first thing that pops up after the grub menu is this: Loading Linux 3.4.6-2.10-desktop ... Loading initial ramdisk ... Then it hangs right there whenever I go to boot up. I have to hit the reset button on my laptop and reboot. Sometimes I go through the cycle of hitting the reset button 2 or 3 times before it will go past loading the initial ramdisk. Sometimes 10 or 15 times. Sometimes not at all. If I boot into Windows 7, and then restart, it usually does not hang after grub. Any ideas on what to do next? It is a pain to have to always hit the reset button when I am booting up. -- G.O. Box #1: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.1 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.1 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.1 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org