Little bit of info, I have an Toshiba Satellite C55 (B5298), brand new. Trying to install OpenSuSE 13.1 on it. Downloaded the Live DVD, used everything possible but cannot get the system to boot into the installer. Closest I can get is the OpenSuSE menu with Install, Recovery, Check Media and all of those options end in a hung system with a black screen. I’ve tried using Universal USB Installer, Image Writer, ImageUSB and Unetbootin… all of which fail to install, most even fail to boot. Any ideas???
Did you try running the media check option?
On 2014-09-21 07:36, caf4926 wrote:
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> Did you try running the media check option?
Does not work on USB media.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 2014-09-21 06:26, msalazar60 wrote:
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> Little bit of info, I have an Toshiba Satellite C55 (B5298), brand new.
> Trying to install OpenSuSE 13.1 on it. Downloaded the Live DVD, used
> everything possible but cannot get the system to boot into the
> installer. Closest I can get is the OpenSuSE menu with Install,
> Recovery, Check Media and all of those options end in a hung system with
> a black screen.
> I’ve tried using Universal USB Installer, Image Writer,
> ImageUSB and Unetbootin… all of which fail to install, most even fail
> to boot. Any ideas???
Of those things you tried some “modify” the installation image somehow,
thus destroying it. You can only use “installers” that just copy the
image to the raw USB.
ImageWriter is one. ImageUSB is another.
On the command line, you can use dd, cp, even cat.
unetbooting is known to fail.
These are the official instructions:
https://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick
On Windows:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a_Live_USB_stick_using_Windows
You have to verify that the image you downloaded is error free. You have
instructions for that on the download page. Then, copy that to the raw
usb device, following the instructions published by openSUSE itself, not
other sites.
Then, if the installation image boots, then crashes, tell here, with
details about your machine. If possible, try the installation media on
another computer (without installing unless you want to).
You could also try the full DVD image.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
That might be a graphics problem. If you are UEFI booting, then hit “e” on the boot screen, scroll down to the line with “linuxefi” and append " nomodeset" to the end of the line. Then look at the screen to see which key to hit to continue booting.
For non-UEFI booting, use the function key for video settings (see options at bottom of screen), and select “NOKMS”.