I installed opensuse 12,3 KDE from installation dvd for the first time few hours ago. Since then I’m lurking on forum but now I’m without new ideas for what to search so help me please.
About installation: dual boot with windows7. 3 partitions for windows and 30gb of free space for opensuse. No problem occurred during installation and I can boot in windows and opensuse. But on opensuse start up http://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/kde4-splash1.jpg last two pictures won’t load. They stay blurry for long time(i waited for 20 minutes max) and then I use power button to shut pc down.
Just installed gnome. Installation went well. I can boot in it, but now those loading pictures won’t show and only background picture with green opensuse lizard on grass(?) is there.
Graphic card is amd radeon HD 6670. I did install on 3 partitions. Installer did it automatically: for root ~2 Gb, for swap ~11 Gb, for home ~16 Gb.
GNOME does not show loading pictures like KDE nor does it have anything on desktop. What happens if you click on button in top left corner or move mouse there to the very screen border?
Again, hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace twice, in the login screen select “Gnome-classic” desktop. Login and report whether that works. Me too thinks the video card is the issue.
Another option you have is to in the GRUB2 Boot menu pick “Advanced options”, then pick the “Failsafe” boot. That should at least bring a working desktop.
Last 3rd of screen ended on left side. After ctrl-alt-backspace screen was full of words and green OKs, words had defected sequence.
Any point in trying failsafe now?
with nomodeset i ended up in terminal that works ^^
Yes, that picture is from the internet and I used it just to show what smaller pictures won’t “focus” . Google will find it after: opensuse startup screen. Sorry for confusion but that was only possible way for me to show problem.
hdd: hitachi 320gb 7200rpm SATA
No SSD and no ISRT.
USB Keyboard and USB mouse are mid range- no name
MB is from gigabyte (more then 5 year old)
Hi again,
I reviewed the postings here another time.
In your 1st post:
and
OK.
You said that you installed from DVD.
Then verifying is easy even if you’re new to linux.
Enter this DVD, restart the PC with DVD inserted,
the upcoming boot menu should look like this
Here choose ‘Check Installation Media’ and hit return.
You will have to wait several minutes.
Report result.
By the way, booting in failsafe mode:
take out the DVD and boot from the harddisk.
In the upcoming boot menu some entry should be present that has the word ‘failsafe’ in its name/description.
You can select it.
However, in your case that probably won’t work either, because of the following.
Did you get:
[quote=“gogalthorp,post:6,topic:93894”]
I hope you just mixed up the number because if you did not then things just won’t work. I’d expect more like root-16 swap-2 home-11[/QUOTE]
???
You should take that very seriously:
You will - in any way - have to make a new installation after deleting the partitions for root, swap and home of openSUSE.
Period.
Reasons:
2 GB for root (or /), which is your number, just isn’t enough ! (the likely reason for your problems)
11 GB for swap, again your number, on the other hand, just means to waste space.
So delete your 3 Linux partitions and create new ones using the sizes given by gogalthorp (see above).
Besides, use ext4 (or ext3) to format these new partitions, but not BTRFS, see http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/478909-advisory-june-2013-new-users-beware-using-btrfs-filesystem.html
You can delete, create, and format partitions during install, if you don’t let the openSUSE installer create the partitions automatically.
Easier for you may even be to download, VERIFY, burn and boot from a parted magic' or openSUSE 12.3 live CD/DVD (partition magic’ isn’t free anymore).
Booting from such a live CD in addition gives you an impression how your system will run under Linux.
Great.
But in that case you could as well run the installation from the DVD.
To find out how to create and format your partitions for openSUSE manually,
you may need to experiment a bit.
Even while running the installer from the DVD you’re able to have a look at the partition setup proposed
(because you’re already using the partitioner then),
which includes the mount points for the different partitions, or the mount points for windows partitions as well
(to be able to accesss them later on running openSUSE).
Make manual notes of what you found (on paper using a pencil …), with respect to mount points
(it is / for root, and /home for the users partition) and the things in Fstab-options for your windows partitions.
That’s the way I do it.
I don’t know the Fstab-options by heart.
With that information gathered, even if you’re not a guru, you can then create your custom partition setup using
expert mode for partitioning during installation.
But take care to not delete your windows partition(s).
If you create partitions using the partitioner from the live CD/DVD, that’s fine.
If you don’t choose expert mode/create partition setup for partitioning during the installation, the installer may, however, still suggest
a different partition setup with different sizes of the partitions (means that it would re-arrange your partition setup if you let it do that,
because it thinks it is more clever …).
Have a look at that.
Yes, you can correct the partition setup running the installer using expert mode.
Besides, having a bootable live CD/DVD is always a good idea.
You may even use it to save data from windows partitions when you have problems booting your system from the harddisk.
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Live GNOME faild to log in. Same problem as before. Just desktop picture with nothing else.
ctrl-alt-backspace did show ‘Faild to start log in service’ and where to look for that .log but I had to power button from there cose everything else did not work/frozen
Maybe it’s time to try some other distro and try opensuse again when my gpu dies…:’(
