I’ve been trying to install Suse 11.0 for a while now and keep having the same error. I was doing an auto install using DVD which wasn’t working so I switched to advanced to see where it was failing and figured out it isn’t doing the auto-configuration of my hardware in the installation. My system is as follows:
AMD 5000+ dual core overclocked to 3.0 GHz
ATI Radeon 3870
8GB of Ram (lots of application development done)
Dual boot with Vista Business 64
It goes to the login screen and I can login and it will save my settings but it tells me I need to complete installation every time I boot up. Even if somebody could tell me how to do the hardware config through terminal that might be enough. Thank you.
Are you referring to the last stage of the installation where the video card, sound, printer, etc. are configured (that is what is done if the “automatic configuration” option at front is chosen)?
If your user account properly set up? If you need other hardware components still set up, that’s under YaST.
As far as the “complete installation” message, I know what you mean but at the moment can’t remember exactly where it originates (not very helpful, right?). Take a look, as root, at /boot/grub/menu.lst on the kernel line; there may be a pointer there in the “root=” clause. And check /etc/fstab for the same thing on the root partition mount line.
I’ve installed AMD X2 5600+ 11.1-rc1 with 4GiB RAM on an ATI Radeon 4650, without issues using the 64bit Live CD install.
If you haven’t got a reason to stick with 11.0, but just been installing it, you might benefit from the upgrade, 11.1-RC1 seemed pretty solid (better than 10.3 which took a month after initial release to reach my expectations).
I’d agree about the overclocking for the install, you’ll gain nothing with a modern CPU during installation, and can burn in and test post-install when you adjust the clock rate.
Something you should know about dual core and Linux! It won’t bounce the threads around, trashing caches, like Vista does, so one of the CPUs may be working much, much harder than under Vista. That may mean the same clock rate won’t be stable, as the CPU won’t be stalled for 100 cycles whilst data is fetched from memory.
Later you might look into compilation caching and distributed compiling tools. Also setting TMPDIR to a tmpfs, virtual memory filesystem may boost speed by avoiding write barriers of small temporary files being flushed to disk (ext3 journal for example).
I solved it today. The problem was SuSE couldn’t decide which card to use (my onboard or PCI-E) so it just wouldn’t. For anybody else who may encounter this problem once I was logged in as one of my users, I opened a terminal logged in as root and ran sax2 -p to find what card was assigned to what chip then ran sax2 -c # where # is the chip number of my PCI-E card. Once I restarted it gave me the same error but completed the installation in the end. Thank you all for your help.
Yep, that’s where the framebuffer used in the first install stage screens is switched to sax running its own X server in the last stage since it needs that to configure the card.