Recently I bought a Samsung R560 Laptop.
However, I have attempted to install a 64 bit version of openSUSE. It freezes [on the Live CD] on a screen like this one: http://news.softpedia.com/images/extra/LINUX/large/opensuse11installation-large_003.jpg
After about five minutes, the laptops reboots and the process starts again and then it freezes etc.
It’s not just openSUSE which causes the problem, Ubuntu [my second choice] has the same problem and I have also tried a 32 bit version - that fails as well!
i have a problem on mine that is simeler
my imedia 8812
dosent work with CentOS it freezes at startup
suse is one that works
try booting with safe seting on the kernal it workes for me
ps your dvds could be errored
i frequently got errors on the dvds i baught as part of a shop magazine distribution ( the 10 euro kind )
Try to boot in the verbose mode , to get there press
the Esc key a few times , hopefully it come with error messages ,
or at least show you where the boot up it stops
dobby9
ok you said you tried it on your other computer… but is your other computer identical to the one where the boot fails? if not your media could be bad and fails at the point of difference. I would burn another copy of the iso, and burn at a slower speed than you normaly do. You might want to use a better brand of media incase that might be the problem as well.
like i sayed centos debian astrolinux wouldent work on my imedia 8812 seems to be a bad setup of the acpi and sometimes it frustrates me
PCLinuxOS boot CD worked great thought and the active runs on DVD ones seemed to work mostly
and as it terns out OpenSUSE 11 64bit installed after 5 attempts with it failing du to errors ether on the CD or Harddisk errors that are random rather than static
windows seemed to run faster if i used the non acpi driver for my main bord
so i sympathies with you
is your system over clocked ?
is AMD cooling enabled on the bios ?
over clocking can cause instability
try rearanging your hardware io ports in bios so none overlap
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> worth a try
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> like i sayed centos debian astrolinux wouldent work on my imedia 8812
> seems to be a bad setup of the acpi and sometimes it frustrates me
> PCLinuxOS boot CD worked great thought and the active runs on DVD ones
> seemed to work mostly
>
> and as it terns out OpenSUSE 11 64bit installed after 5 attempts with
> it failing du to errors ether on the CD or Harddisk errors that are
> random rather than static
>
> windows seemed to run faster if i used the non acpi driver for my main
> bord
>
> so i sympathies with you
> is your system over clocked ?
> is AMD cooling enabled on the bios ?
> over clocking can cause instability
> try rearanging your hardware io ports in bios so none overlap
>
Try with acpi=off in the ‘Boot Options’ and maybe similiar parameters, i.e.
to prevent using DMA etc, when booting from the DVD. F1 may give you hints
about the other parameters.
would you post the specifices of your hardware here eg
orion mainbord
amd 3800+ X2 250GB Sata
tv tuner
justlink dvd drive
2 gigs of ram
windows XP and suse and PClinuxOS installed
use the usb key idea and try PCLinuxOS on it or … SUSE Desktop
install it in another machine and set grub to load from the boot device and set your new machine to use the usb as a bood device and presto a working version
Optical media and optical drives can be extremely sensitive. A CD or DVD can easily work in one system but not another. There is a “mediacheck” on the menu which verifies the burn, although it cannot check for faulty reads later by the device. Lightscribe devices are more vulnerable.
The graphic you displayed shows the progress bar pretty far along, which usually indicates the latter part of the setup process. On the LiveCD this is where the X server is started. A proprietary graphics driver cannot be included on a LiveCD, only an open-source driver. With your card, the CD will try to use either the nv or vesa driver, but it could fail. Try booting the CD with typing the number “3” (w/o quotes) in the Boot Options field below. If the problem is the graphics driver, you will be dropped to a command line prompt; login as “linux” and type “startx” - you will see the error.
Boot the CD and in a few moments hit the Escape key. This will drop the splash screen and you will see the kernel log. You may very well see what the kernel is trying to do when it hangs; write than down and post back here. Often searching here or googling on the device or driver where it hangs turns up a solution.
Some machines have a faulty msi which can hang the kernel. In the Boot Options field try typing “pci=nomsi” (w/o quotes).
Try the DVD. It has capabilities not possible to include in the LiveCD.
In the system specs you listed, a very important component is missing: The chipset including the Southbridge (the disk/PCI bus controller). That ID is easy to retrieve with a LiveCD, but obviously that won’t work. In Windows you may (not sure) be able to get that with Vista’s hardware info report. Or from the manufacturer’s site. Or, download/install free SiSoft Sandra (a great tool to have anyway); it will tell you everything about your hardware.
