Im trying to install OpenSuse 11 64-bit version and when the dvd boots a load of text flashes past and then it stops at activating usb devices line. The lights on my keyboard and mouse go off then come back on but theyre non functional.
Ive tried setting the no apic and no aspi parameters at the install welcome screen but those make no difference.
On 08/04/2008 swarfega wrote:
> Ive tried setting the no apic and no aspi parameters at the install
> welcome screen but those make no difference.
Try noacpi
Thats one of the options i tried 
With that set it would get past to the install stage but of course the keyboard and mouse were unresponsive so I couldnt do anything.
Take a look in the bios for USB settings. There may be something like “legacy USB support”. Enabling that may fix the problem.
Thanks, I think thats currently on. Ill try that later and report back.
I disabled this last night and tried again. Still the same issue and I can only progress with an old ps2 keyboard. I got as for as install configuring boot loader but then a nonsensicle error message comes up and there appears to be some problem installing grub.
On 08/05/2008 swarfega wrote:
> a nonsensicle error message comes up and there appears to be some
> problem installing grub.
And the error message is?
Did you verify the media before installation? Could be a damaged ISO or a problem writing it to DVD
Uwe
hmm no i didnt, ill go verify it.
Here is an image of the error message:
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The dvd verified ok.
-Double check your partitioning
-try installing grub to the MBR (should be a setting during setup)
Uwe
I bought a 1Tb drive just for linux
I had partitioned it as follows:
/boot: 20gb
/swap: 5gb
/home: 50gb
/: 850gb
Is that the only disk in the system? If not, what’s the boot order?
The error message indicates that grub wants to install on the extended partition of the first disk, and that partition doesn’t seem to exist.
Uwe
I created an extended partition on that hd first then the logical partitions under that.
I have 5 other hdds on this computer!
What would be the best partitioning solution for a 1Tb hdd?
On 08/05/2008 swarfega wrote:
> I created an extended partition on that hd first then the logical
> partitions under that. I have 5 other hdds on this computer!
Okay, that may confuse grub during installation. Can you boot from a live CD to see what Opensuse sees? Or, what does the partitioning during the installation look like?
What other operating systems are installed?
> What
> would be the best partitioning solution for a 1Tb hdd?
Never ever ask that question. You will get as many answers as replies, probably even more 
It depends very much on what you want to do with the machine.
Your problem isn’t related to the partitioning of this particular disk, I think.
Uwe
Ill download the live cd tonight. It might be better to use that rather than an hd install it seems.
The only other OS I have on here is vista 64-bit. I do know that vista can cause issues with mbr.
Yes, and also with the disk partitioning.
Grub must guess what the boot disk sequence as set up in the bio is; all the bios provides is the disk controller channel map (the order in which the bios detects the devices). Grub usually does a good job of this, but one factor that can trip up the grub install is when you have a different disk setup in the bios sequence to boot from (as in, the Windows disk) than the disk you want grub to be installed on and/or openSUSE is installed on. This can be a bit confusing at first. But essentially, what is needed is to get alignment between grub and the boot sequence in the bios, and make sure that the two files grub uses (device.map for the sequence, and menu.lst for the boot instructions) reflect this.
The best way to sort out what it is and what it should be, and get quickly to the solution . . . once you get the live-CD and boot from it, open a terminal window and do this:
su
which will switch you to root. Then do:
fdisk -l
That will give us the disks as the bios and OS sees them. Then mount first the root (/) followed by the /boot, drive partitions you installed openSUSE on like this:
mount -t ext3 /dev/sd<x><n> /mnt
mount -t ext3 /dev/sd<x><n> /mnt/boot
Where is the drive letter assigned (e.g., sda) and is the partition number (e.g., sda5). Then do:
cd /mnt/boot/grub
cat device.map
cat menu.lst
Each cat command will list the file; copy/paste both back here. Also tell us where Vista is installed, and whether there is a recovery partition in front of Vista on its disk.
hmm I did reaarrnge the order of the hdds in bios so maybe that is causing the problem.
I did as you suggested.
cat device.map reported back: /dev/mapper/nvidia_fgfbaddc
and cat menu.lst reported:
gfxmenu(hd0,4)/message
root(hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi_sata_samsung_hd103ujs13j1cq601004_part8 resume=/dev/sdd6 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a