On 12/1/2012 7:50 PM, Carl Fletcher wrote:
On 02/12/12 01:34, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Searching around on the internet, it appears I am in for a rough road trying to install a dual boot system on my new ASUS G75VW laptop. (It came with Windows 7 x64 installed and there is a lot of chatter in Google land about something called EFI partitions??? Also a lot of Google hits on openSuSE forums, but when I try to open them up for viewing, my browser (Firefox) is not showing any contents!)
I downloaded and created an installation DVD for openSuSE12.2 x64 and managed to figure out how to reach the bios and change the device boot order so as to boot from the DVD drive first. Upon inserting the DVD installation disk and powering up the laptop I can see that the initial phase of bringing up ELILO boot, (what happened to GRUB?) loads the kernel and perhaps a screen and a half worth of additional messages (too fast for me to read). But suddenly the display breaks up badly with unreadable lines that look mostly like a lot of dots and dashes start appearing, and it appears to soon reach a GUI (composed of green, grey, and white streaks of colors) but this too is badly corrupted and non-readable. So I am not even reaching a point where I can configure anything while attempting to install openSuSE!
The display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M if that helps...
So how do I proceed? Thanks Marc...
Check this https://forums.opensuse.org/content/102-booting-opensuse-uefi-bios-elilo-gru...
and
https://forums.opensuse.org/content/105-booting-opensuse-uefi-bios-elilo-gru...
Thanks Carl, I read these and looks like they will be really helpful, if/when I get past the display corruption problem I am seeing while trying to install openSuSE. The forums are back online today, so I have been searching for any related issues to the problem I am having but so far no joy.... Marc -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org