On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:12:21 -0400 David T-G <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org> wrote:
Hi, all --
I've just run through a few installs and thought I'd send an update, pretty much for general news but also so that someone can tell me where I'm being an idiot.
Do you really mean a 15.2 install, or are you discussing 15.3?
I downloaded the NET image and threw it on a USB stick and ran through the entire install configuration. Although it happily pulled down data to get set up, it couldn't figure out networking (on-board Ethernet) and failed to connect to repositories and died. Worse, there was no way to get back into the install process after manually bringing up the interface; I was stuck at the 80s-style screen (which I love; don't get me wrong :-) and unable to try again.
So, fine, I also downloaded the DVD image and went through the whole setup again. This *appeared* to configure (including without limitation setting a static IP address) properly, but during the actual install failed to connect to a couple of repositories and so wasn't quite complete. Urgh. But I can ping! *grrr*
I rebooted and found networking to be unavailable. I had to go into YaST, change over to wicked, and tell it to believe the static IP info it had there before I could get going. Odd. Networking appeared fine after that, and I was able to zypper grab a few packages, but did not come up on the next boot.
This box again did the resume search on System\x20Reserved during boot; I really need to file that bug report. [This is an identical machine from the same refurb folks, so it's not surprising to see that it would be duplicated.] It takes less time to edit the boot line than to wait through it, so I've done that a few times now. By the way, according to /dev/disk/by-label, my sda1 swap volume *does* have that label, so my guess is that "format"ting for swap doesn't actually do so. Still, though, why it searches there or even specifies resume= is a question for the bug report ...
On this last boot of the night, as noted above, I still have no networking, and poking at it this time does not appear effective. Hmmm.
It's bedtime for me, and I'll hope to get back to this the next time I'm where it is. I'll certainly send updates -- and, now that I know I'm likely to see difficulties, take better notes. Maybe this is enlightening for others, though.
Have a great night!
:-D