I Have installed openSUSE 11.3 using VMWare and liked it so I thought I would install as my main OS.
So I downloaded the latest livecd Gnome and created a usb install using imagewriter with suse.
I can boot to the initial menu asking if I want to boot the livecd or install. If I choose either it will begin to show a lot of things on the screen scrolling really fast and then the screen will go black. I’ve waiting up to about 15 minutes with no result.
If you need more info as to whats displaying on the screen before it goes black let me know, I will try my best to get it. It goes rather quick.
I’m running on an acer aspire desktop 4gb of ram with an ati radeon hd3400 series.
If anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great. Thanks for the help!
I apologize but do you have a free partition to install OpenSuse 11.3? Did you run a media check or md5sum on the USB device before you started the installation?
If you have a /var/log/boot.msg to display that would be nice, also your current HDD configuration, mount, fdisk.
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Not sure what you mean here. Describe a “free partition”. I have an ubuntu partition that I planned on wiping out using the partition manager of the suse install.
I ran a media check and it said “md5 sum wrong” so a created another bootable usb installer using windows instead this time on a different usb stick and it still says md5 wrong. I don’t have any blank dvd’s now so burning the image isn’t possible
Where can I see the /var/log/boot.msg ? My current Setup is a 650GB HDD with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 with GRUB bootloader.
If the USB installer is not passing the media check then that’s most likely why you can’t proceed with the installation.
Partitions are as you described, ie, Windows and Ubuntu.
You should delete the Ubuntu as planned but I suggest you create 3 new partitions from that deleted Ubuntu partition. The new partitions would be / (root 20-30Gb in size), /home, /swap (1Gb in size) created out of the unallocated space left by deleting the Ubuntu partition. That way you can upgrade or change Linux systems without losing the data you store in /home.
Try another mirror site for downloading the USB installer. An alternative if you have a good high speed internet connection is a network install. http://software.opensuse.org/113/en
Change grub, reboot and it starts the installation process, downloading files as needed. Good for overnight install.
Thanks for your help. I installed successfully as you described with a 20 GB root, 200GB home and 4GB swap.
However I’m running into another problem (of course lol!)
I can only successfully make it to the login screen by booting in failsafe mode. Trying to boot normally gets me to the openSUSE loading screen showing the lizard above the loading bar, but the bar does not move. Seems to get stuck there. Is there any way to see whats going on in the background? Maybe to see why it’s stopping?
Or if there is any log file I can view by booting into failsafe mode?
Reeonimus Thanks for your help. I installed successfully as you described with a 20 GB root, 200GB home and 4GB swap.
However I’m running into another problem (of course lol!)
I can only successfully make it to the login screen by booting in failsafe mode. Trying to boot normally gets me to the openSUSE loading screen showing the lizard above the loading bar, but the bar does not move. Seems to get stuck there. Is there any way to see whats going on in the background? Maybe to see why it’s stopping?
Or if there is any log file I can view by booting into failsafe mode?
Thanks again.
Try adding in the kernel load option nomodeset. When the grub menu starts, you have eight seconds to move your selection up and down or enter something. On the normal kerenl load, that is not working, just type in: nomodeset and press enter. If that works, it is an issue with your default graphics card driver. I am not into ATI cards, but you can search the forum for such cards to see if they help. Here is an article that might help:
nomodeset allowed me to boot. I installed the ATI proprietary drivers which I was hesitant to do. Had too many troubles to count with this ATI card and Ubuntu. From what I hear Nvidia just seems to be all around better.
Anyhow the drivers installed and it boots fine.
Thanks for your help guys. So far openSUSE is a wonderful OS.
nomodeset allowed me to boot. I installed the ATI proprietary drivers which I was hesitant to do. Had too many troubles to count with this ATI card and Ubuntu. From what I hear Nvidia just seems to be all around better.
Anyhow the drivers installed and it boots fine.
Thanks for your help guys. So far openSUSE is a wonderful OS.
Happy to hear you got up and running. Without a doubt, nVidia works better with less trouble than AMD/ATI does right now. Of course, you can get some of them to work some of the time and perhaps newer cards are working better than old. I always buy nVidia due to the better Linux support. I do think that it is getting better with AMD/ATI and we are getting some great help here from some other AMD/ATI users as well. But, If I was only using Linux, I would be hard pressed to recommend you buy a AMD/ATI video card. It is kind of sad because the AMD/ATI cards have often had a better price, used less power and better performance when pegged at the same price level. nVidia has really come on strong of late and with pure force and has pushed beyond AMD/ATI in performance. I can never afford any of the top video cards and think spending $150 a lot for a video card, even so, nVidia has done alright by me in that range. By the way, AMD will drop the ATI name the first of 2011 and so it will just be AMD video cards then.
nVidia proprietary drivers are better for Linux than ATI drivers that’s all. I like my ATI cards. I don’t think it’s changed but nVidia drivers don’t support XEN VirtualBox, but ATI proprietary drivers might. Aside from that there have been many OpenSuSe users posting success installing the ATI proprietary drivers. IMHO, for many of us its just the automatic update of ATI drivers that spoils our appetite, not the video cards.
nVidia proprietary drivers are better for Linux than ATI drivers that’s all. I like my ATI cards. I don’t think it’s changed but nVidia drivers don’t support XEN VirtualBox, but ATI proprietary drivers might. Aside from that there have been many OpenSuSe users posting success installing the ATI proprietary drivers. IMHO, for many of us its just the automatic update of ATI drivers that spoils our appetite, not the video cards.
tararpharazon first off, I welcome all good news about AMD graphic cards AND I wish them much good luck. However, if you compare problem reports here in the openSUSE forums, more than half the time they belong to AMD, not nVidia. But again, I wish them no ill will at all as I want them to work if for no other reason but to push nVidia into doing much better. I really think nVidia had become somewhat complacent several years ago, always being the big dog and ATI showed them that they were wrong and has beat them soundly many times. So the competition is very good for us all. At heart though, I am a nVidia person through and through. I really don’t know why, but taking that new nVidia video card out of the box and making it work with EVERYTHING I put to it is exciting. Perhaps I have lost a bolt or two, not really sure, but I am a sucker for nVidia.
