BOOT PROBLEMS...HELP?

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Hey everybody and thank you for looking at my thread.

I hope I’m in the correct posting place if not please let me know and i will move my post.

I am VERY new to linux and ive tried several distros, i like suse. Everytime i install however i get stuck in what looks like an infinite boot. it will start grub and go to the screen with the loading bar before log in but the bar will never move. i press the Esc key and it says timeout after 30 seconds. Is there any way to fix this? It WILL boot into failsafe mode tho.

Any help would be grately appreciated and understand i know almost nothing about linux, but i will do what you ask me.

thank you!

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If failsafe works and the normal openSUSE startup does not, the difference is the following 9 kernel startup options:

apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe

You can actually type them in, but just one at a time, up to nine times to see which option(s) allows you to run. The nomodeset kernel load option is the most common one to try first. So, when the Grub OS selection menu comes up, but before you press the enter key, just type in nomodeset and then press enter and see if that helps. If you can get the startup to using just one added option, it can be edited into the grub menu.lst file so it uses it all of the time. For instance I have added in the kernel nomodeset load option since I have an nVIDIA video card and load their driver instead of using the standard one. Any way, it is worth a try.

Thank You,

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so when it boots to the menu with failsafe and desktop. i just try typing those 9 things 1 at a time? im going to try it now…Thanks for the help ill let you know if it works!

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Is this kde by any chance?
Please disable auto login:
Disable Auto-Login

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so when it boots to the menu with failsafe and desktop. i just try typing those 9 things 1 at a time? im going to try it now…Thanks for the help ill let you know if it works!

You will pick the standard openSUSE startup, not failsafe as ALL of the options are already in failsafe, but not in the standard startup and so using them one at a time may help determine which one is needed.

Thank You,

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I’m having boot problems myself. I installed OpenSUSE from a LiveUSB and after rebooting, my laptop won’t go past the boot screen. It gets stuck on the hp logo. I have no idea what to do now.

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Can you still boot the live CD?

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I can’t. None of the function keys will work. Only Ctrl+Alt+Delete works.

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You installed by booting the CD?
Or did you run the installer from windows?

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I ran the installer from Linux using the command line options to format the drive and install OpenSUSE onto the drive. I don’t know why after this it would cause my laptop not to boot past the BIOS let alone get into it.

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So are you telling me, you can no longer boot a live cd. You don’t need Fn keys to boot a CD
I can tell you though, this sounds slightly familiar. I seem to recall another post about this, but IIRC a Dell machine.

Thing is not to panic.
I have to sleep now, sorry about that.

What is the spec of your machine, perhaps a link to HP official info on it. It may tell us something.

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I actually had this problem once when I was trying to install Mint9.

For opensuse. I suggest you do a reinstall with a live USB. You will need to download Unetbootin and whatever partition program you have. Clean up your USB and then use Unetbootin to create a bootable USB. If you are formating your USB in windows you can just do it from the cmd line.

You will boot from your USB.

Choose install.

Then you will go to the open suse screen - make sure you pick the right partition.

Later you might need to fix your repositiories in YaST but other than that it should boot just fine.