Hi,
I installed openSuse 12.2 in one of 3 partitions; a 2nd one has Mint 12 which is my main/working OS. Here, the sequence of events:
1- Installation was ok, and Open Suse Grub2, replaced the Mint’s Grub2 menu
2- Booted suse, and was ok. Display was working fine…
3- I had to re-boot suse (for whatever reason): splash was ok… then, video shown graphical garbage on the screen… and just a big square was shown as mouse pointer. I have an nVidia GForce card and a full hd samsung led monitor. Bottom line… first boot after install, display was ok; second boot… video was crashed.
4- Booted Mint 12, and I realized sound was affected. Noise was heard in speakers whe Hard Disk was reading/writing. Did not happen before installing suse. Soemthing was not right for Min’ts entry in suse’s Grub2?
5- I restored Mint’s grub2 menu; suse was detected… yet 6 entries were created for suse:
menuentry “openSUSE 12.2 (i586) (on /dev/sda7)” --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root=‘(hd0,msdos7)’
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7
initrd /boot/initrd
}
menuentry “openSUSE 12.2 (i586) (on /dev/sda7)” --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root=‘(hd0,msdos7)’
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7
initrd /boot/initrd-3.4.6-2.10-desktop
}
menuentry “openSUSE 12.2 (i586) (on /dev/sda7)” --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root=‘(hd0,msdos7)’
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7
initrd /boot/initrd
}
menuentry “openSUSE 12.2 (i586) (on /dev/sda7)” --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root=‘(hd0,msdos7)’
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7
initrd /boot/initrd-3.4.6-2.10-desktop
}
menuentry “openSUSE 12.2 (i586) (on /dev/sda7)” --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root=‘(hd0,msdos7)’
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.6-2.10-desktop root=/dev/sda7
initrd /boot/initrd-3.4.6-2.10-desktop
}
menuentry “openSUSE 12.2 (i586) (on /dev/sda7)” --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root=‘(hd0,msdos7)’
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
linux /boot/vmlinux-3.4.6-2.10-desktop.gz root=/dev/sda7
}
6- I started with the first entry; splash was not there any more… and command lines were shown as boot was porcessing
7- Video now worked…
8- I continued testing suse… and I found network was down (started a different thread on it: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/network-internet/479325-fresh-install-opensuse-12-2-network-does-not-work-wired-wireless.html
9- I copied suse’s menu entries from suse’s grub.cfg, to Mint’s grub menu; I restarted and selected suse; video still doesn’t work and shows garbage. Here are the entries on suse’s grub2 menu:
menuentry ‘openSUSE’ --class opensuse --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option ‘gnulinux-simple-1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a’ {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root=‘hd0,msdos9’
if x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos9 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos9 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos9 --hint=‘hd0,msdos9’ 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
fi
echo ‘Loading Linux 3.4.6-2.10-desktop …’
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.6-2.10-desktop root=UUID=1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS721616PLA380_PVG974ZH0SHYAV-part6 splash=silent quiet showopts
echo ‘Loading initial ramdisk …’
initrd /boot/initrd-3.4.6-2.10-desktop
}
submenu ‘Advanced options for openSUSE’ $menuentry_id_option ‘gnulinux-advanced-1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a’ {
menuentry ‘openSUSE, with Linux 3.4.6-2.10-desktop’ --class opensuse --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option ‘gnulinux-3.4.6-2.10-desktop-advanced-1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a’ {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root=‘hd0,msdos9’
if x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos9 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos9 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos9 --hint=‘hd0,msdos9’ 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
fi
echo ‘Loading Linux 3.4.6-2.10-desktop …’
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.6-2.10-desktop root=UUID=1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS721616PLA380_PVG974ZH0SHYAV-part6 splash=silent quiet showopts
echo ‘Loading initial ramdisk …’
initrd /boot/initrd-3.4.6-2.10-desktop
}
menuentry ‘openSUSE, with Linux 3.4.6-2.10-desktop (recovery mode)’ --class opensuse --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option ‘gnulinux-3.4.6-2.10-desktop-recovery-1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a’ {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root=‘hd0,msdos9’
if x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos9 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos9 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos9 --hint=‘hd0,msdos9’ 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a
fi
echo ‘Loading Linux 3.4.6-2.10-desktop …’
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.6-2.10-desktop root=UUID=1c2e2eb2-5a3c-47c0-afbb-49244baa591a showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe
echo ‘Loading initial ramdisk …’
initrd /boot/initrd-3.4.6-2.10-desktop
}
}
What can be done, to have openSuse working right again with video?