I have 2 laptops for this project . T16 AMD 7840u /780m 32gb 2tb and a T480s Intel 8650U 40gb 512gb . Both have most current bios available. I downloaded Tumbleweed from the opensuse website for the offline iso last night. Both installs process and complete then reboot to a black screen and a flashing capslock button. This happens if a normal reboot continues. if i select options during boot and pick rescue mode , it will boot into the de and let me log in. Everything seems to work fine at that point. But if I reboot and just let it boot normally , it fails everytime , on both machines. I have tried turning on and off secure boot and tpm stuff. I have reinstalled several times , inbetween each reinstall I have securely erased the entire nvme. Not sure what I am missing as this is the only OS that has behaved this way on either of these machines.Any help would be great.
If you pause at the Grub menu by striking the E key, you may adjust the kernel’s boot parameters list. If you append a space and nomodeset to the end of the line (which usually wraps one or two lines) and begins with linu, before proceeding to boot (Ctrl-X or F10), is the result equivalent to your selecting to boot in rescue mode - can you tell any difference?
If instead of appending nomodeset you append simply a space and 3, do you reach a shell prompt that allows you to login in text mode?
both have returned “cannot find command”
edit: I should add that i didn’t find a line that started with “linu” or anything close , so I added the lines before the boot section at the end of long wrap around text.
3 and nomodeset are not commands.
What precisely did you do to produce that message?
Does attempting to boot produce a Grub menu?
If yes, did you strike the E key when it appeared?
It goes to a green screen where I can can select opensuse tumbleweed, advanced options , uefi firmware , start bootloader . I then hit “E” and i get a terminal window titled grub 2.12 , first item is “setparams ‘openSUSU Tumbleweed’” with no spaces before the start of the text . This is the screen I edited to add either “nomodeset” or “3” about half way down the page.
Right off, you’re using Ventoy, which is generally contraindicated for installing any openSUSE distribution.
Please try with a USB stick written using Impression, or Rufus, or dd.
oh my , you’re kidding , it is really that easy? My apologies as I didn’t see that anywhere on the download page. That would be my mistake as i have been using Ventoy for everything else. I will try that now. Thanks for the help!
Seemed to be the issues , it boots fine after using rufus and a empty usb drive. Thanks again for the help!
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