On Saturday 16 February 2008 03:21:34 pm Administrator wrote:
The installation firstly drops back to text mode (install doesn't like either the ati card or the 19" widescreen) and then loops at the "Start installation or update". There is no error message apart from an unhelpful "The Installation failed" with "OK" & "Back" buttons, both of wheich seem to do the same thing. I can't find a log entry (I'm not certain I'm looking in the right place) nor are there any on-screen messages saying what happened.
Very frustrating.
ctrl-alt-f1..f10. Some of the consoles are logs.
Nothing of any significance (errors, warnings) shows on any of them.
I'll try again soon, and if it repeats (and I've had a day of this, so it probably will) I'll report the last message on each of the logs ...
David
The F10 should be the log, but you have also /var/log/YaST2/ directory and logs underneat. That is RAM disk, but you can save them to hard disk from console on terminal that you can reach from text mode with Alt-F2. Hard disk should be mounted on /mnt directory. You can also test what installation already has recognized/done from terminal with : # mount and save result with # mount > /mnt/tmp/install-mount the same with: # fdisk -l and # fdisk -l > /mnt/tmp/install-fdisk and yast logs: # mkdir /mnt/tmp/yast2 # cp -R /var/log/YaST/* /mnt/tmp/yast2 You can try to select VESA as video mode, or go direct to text mode with Esc key. This can prevent corruption from vide subsystem probe. For this use normal Installation option. It can be also related and good to know, what is your video adapter and can you use another, just as a test. Where is connected the CD/DVD drive, secondary IDE master or slave. What model and vendor is the CD/DVD drive? -- Regards, Rajko. See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org