Install 11.4 M5 proceeds normally but on reboot a corrupted display (bottom 1/3 garbage) and system unresponsive to keyboard.
Athlon X2 64 with Radeon HD 4650 grafix upgrade, system basically a SLED approved Dell Inspiron 531. I installed a default KDE4 graphical system, but then when going to re-install with minimal text and then adding KDE4 patterns post install, system booted to X fine much to my disappointment :’(
The problem is reporting poorly reproducible bugs, is not much fun, and my full netinstall takes a good hour and a half to run, so I’m wondering if anyone else has seen similar, or if this might prove to be an elusive “one off”. Without a functioning multi-user network, it’s tough to provide much useful info on any X install problem.
Am open to suggestions, or pooling info if you’ve seen this to.
Good on ya for testing the Net Install, but what you encountered is one of the reasons why I will NEVER use a net install.
If your purpose is to not test the Net Install, but rather test other aspects of 11.4 M5, then you could simply download an installation CD, or an installation DVD, and try the install from that. See if you get the same problem.
Reference your corrupted display on reboot, did you try the ‘nomodeset’ boot code ? Also, did you try failsafe/safesettings ?
The Net install CD generally works well for me, and the 2 phase minimal text, followed by upgrade to KDE graphical desktop worked. The Net or DVD install has been in recent times preferred to installs using live disks, which proved unsuitable in past due to options like brokenmodules not working; that can make developing workrounds for kernel driver problems impossible and hampers the testing of solutions. For production purposes making the DVD image contents available via NFS (or local HTTP server) solves the speed issue.
It was the kexec fast reboot that failed, not the true reboot and I had deselected auto configuration; it looked like an X problem so I decided to try to isolate it, once I had a working non-graphical system. As the system is booting graphically now with defaults, I don’t think fiddling with the boot settings is going to help this time.
If others are seeing similar install glitches, then there’s more chance of finding soemthing useful and new; as is frankly I’m suspecting it happened due to timing of way I was using another virtual console and switched back, there is a bug in Bugzilla open on such with KMS and the Radeon graphics. In which case it’d just be a waste of everyone’s time to look into this deeper; hence consulting the Forum seeing if it’s my one off or not.