[opensuse] 11.2 on a Thinkpad T410
First off, I've looked at the HCL, I didn't see the T410 listed. I'm trying to get 11.2 installed on a Thinkpad T410. The install goes fine until it comes time to reboot after the installation of the bootloader. Once it starts to boot from the hard drive, it scrolls some kernel messages too quickly to read (but given the green text on the right of the screen, it doesn't appear that there are any failures). After scrolling, the screen goes blank and it doesn't proceed any further. It's not X.org, I've tried clt+alt+fn and ctl+alt+backspace+backspace to no avail. Booting to single user mode, runlevel 3, or using the vga=0x367 option doesn't work either. I tried holding down the space bar to encourage a boot (as was a common issue with a previous laptop in both Ubuntu and openSUSE) to no avail. The openSUSE GNOME LiveCD exhibits the same behavior, though the 11.0 LiveCD functions. SLED 11 works on the laptop just fine aside from theethernet and wireless controllers not showing up. I'm burning a copy of 11.3 Milestone 5 to test out. Is there anything else I can try? Thank you! -- C.M. Hobbs, http://altbit.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2010/04/28 19:57 (GMT-0500) Christopher M. Hobbs composed:
I'm burning a copy of 11.3 Milestone 5 to test out. Is there anything else I can try?
Follow Martin Brown's T410 threads. You're apparently his clone. He just tried and posted about the same as you propose. Consider your M5 disk a coaster. Instead, get milestone 6, which should be nowhere near as broken as M5. Oh, and because 11.3 milestoning, use the opensuse-factory list instead. -- "Suppos [sic] a nation in some distant region, should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopa, What a paradise would this region be!" John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 21:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/04/28 19:57 (GMT-0500) Christopher M. Hobbs composed:
I'm burning a copy of 11.3 Milestone 5 to test out. Is there anything else I can try?
Follow Martin Brown's T410 threads. You're apparently his clone. He just tried and posted about the same as you propose. Consider your M5 disk a coaster. Instead, get milestone 6, which should be nowhere near as broken as M5. Oh, and because 11.3 milestoning, use the opensuse-factory list instead. -- "Suppos [sic] a nation in some distant region, should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopa, What a paradise would this region be!" John Adams, 2nd US President
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
Do you happen to have a link to his thread? I can't find it in the mailing list archives. I'm also trying to find a copy of MS 6. I've asked the GNOME team, but the repos so far show forbidden. Thanks! -- C.M. Hobbs, http://altbit.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2010/04/28 20:34 (GMT-0500) Christopher M. Hobbs composed:
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 21:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Follow Martin Brown's T410 threads. You're apparently his clone. He just tried and posted about the same as you propose. Consider your M5 disk a coaster. Instead, get milestone 6, which should be nowhere near as broken as M5. Oh, and because 11.3 milestoning, use the opensuse-factory list instead.
Do you happen to have a link to his thread? I can't find it in the mailing list archives.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2010-04/msg00718.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-04/msg00475.html
I'm also trying to find a copy of MS 6. I've asked the GNOME team, but the repos so far show forbidden.
I suppose it depends on how and which you try to access until AM when release gets announced. I have it downloading now. By noon it shouldn't matter which mirror you try. -- "Suppos [sic] a nation in some distant region, should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopa, What a paradise would this region be!" John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 22:17 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/04/28 20:34 (GMT-0500) Christopher M. Hobbs composed:
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 21:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Follow Martin Brown's T410 threads. You're apparently his clone. He just tried and posted about the same as you propose. Consider your M5 disk a coaster. Instead, get milestone 6, which should be nowhere near as broken as M5. Oh, and because 11.3 milestoning, use the opensuse-factory list instead.
Do you happen to have a link to his thread? I can't find it in the mailing list archives.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2010-04/msg00718.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-04/msg00475.html
I'm also trying to find a copy of MS 6. I've asked the GNOME team, but the repos so far show forbidden.
I suppose it depends on how and which you try to access until AM when release gets announced. I have it downloading now. By noon it shouldn't matter which mirror you try. -- "Suppos [sic] a nation in some distant region, should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopa, What a paradise would this region be!" John Adams, 2nd US President
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
Thanks! I grabbed a copy off gwdg.de, it'll take a while to download, so I'll report my findings in the morning. -- C.M. Hobbs, http://altbit.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-04-29 02:57, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote:
First off, I've looked at the HCL, I didn't see the T410 listed.
I'm trying to get 11.2 installed on a Thinkpad T410. The install goes fine until it comes time to reboot after the installation of the bootloader. Once it starts to boot from the hard drive, it scrolls some kernel messages too quickly to read (but given the green text on the right of the screen, it doesn't appear that there are any failures). After scrolling, the screen goes blank and it doesn't proceed any further.
It's not X.org, I've tried clt+alt+fn and ctl+alt+backspace+backspace to no avail. Booting to single user mode, runlevel 3, or using the vga=0x367 option doesn't work either. I tried holding down the space bar to encourage a boot (as was a common issue with a previous laptop in both Ubuntu and openSUSE) to no avail.
It should be interesting to note at which point it breaks. My guess is that it is the first, initial boot after installation, which is a run of YaST to complete the configuration of the system, and it runs in graphical mode. There is a flag file on "/" that triggers it, I think. Removing it should allow you to complete booting to text mode - but some important things would not be configured. I think that if you type "confirm" at the initial grub prompt, booting will stop at each step asking if it runs that step or not. Then you can skip the one that fails. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkvZLGoACgkQja8UbcUWM1wmrwD+JJ3WwfDJrOW+Jo6/6ZaOot1+ 6dlD9nXH+yUNpCW7ab0A/AlWH1EMWPQo/XOO3tiSL4i2xVdFOqQf9QQ/3Yll90n5 =5C3j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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