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On Saturday, 2012-12-01 at 17:34 -0800, 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???
Most of the problems are with Windows 8, not 7. Thanks Carlos, that is good news, I hope... I am working with Windows 7 at the moment, but do have the opportunity to a free upgrade to Windows 8 later...
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!)
That's because of the announced downtime today on most of the infraestructure. Try again the forums, they should be online now. OK, yes the forums are back today..
I downloaded and created an installation DVD for openSuSE12.2 x64
One important step is to verify the DVD. There should be an entry in the menu where you can do it. I used K3B to create the DVD. The md5 sum that it calculated for the .iso image is the same as the md5 sum reported on the openSuSE web site. I also check the box to verify written data when I burned the DVD. Apart from that I do not know what else I can do.
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?)
I think that lilo kicks in when EFI is involved, but I'm not sure. If does, in fact from reading the links that Carl Fletcher pointed me to, it is suppose to.
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!
Please verifu the DVD, it could be that. As I said, I think I did verify the DVD as best as I know how to. This
On 12/1/2012 6:01 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: problem is persisting, I start the install and at first it appears to be working OK, and I do see a lot of readable text messages, but shortly into the process the display of these messages becomes corrupted as they are outputted. My guess is that the installation process is trying to detect what video adapter I am using and to load a driver for it? I dunno how to proceed, I cannot copy/paste anything or even try to manually copy much of what I am seeing since the display becomes really corrupted. Like I said, at first the text messages become corrupted, then it certainly appears as if it is trying to bring up the initial GUI but can't display it properly either. Marc...
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar)
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