openSUSE installation freeze when the installation progress bar reach about 95%. The screen turns black and shows a typing cursor on top-left corner and the mouse pointer is freeze, hard disk indicator stop flashing. I try to re-install several times but still can’t complete the installation. I’m installing openSUSE 11.4 from DVD to my laptop (Intel Core 2 Dual 1.4GHz processor, 3GB RAM, 120GB HDD). I formated the laptop that previously comes with MS Windows Vista Basic edition during openSUSE installation. All the hard disk partition deleted and create new partition with maximum space (120GB) with /ext4.
Don’t forget to confirm that the quality of the installation DVD is good. So confirm that you ran an md5sum on the downloaded iso file BEFORE burning to DVD and confirmed that md5sum was the same as the md5sum posted on the openSUSE web site.
When burning the DVD, confirm you burned to a high quality +R or -R (not an RW) at the SLOWEST speed your burner allows. Please do not use some bargain basement sale DVD for your installation media.
Did you also run the mediacheck to provide additional confidence as to the DVD quality ?
I had a very similar problem and it depended upon a wrong functioning of an acpi setting in the bios.
Since you are doing a new install: try to set to “off” all acpi settings in the BIOS (you may switch them later on). Try to install then. If the install goes through, you may well be able to switch (one by one in order to detect a compatibility issue) the acpi settings in the BIOS.
Check also (as colleagues told you before):
the integrity of the DVD (with the menu of the DVD itself)
to start failsafe (and if this works to try to start normally with nomodeset
parameter in the grub menu (this is a line below the selection menu and is modifiable by hand (only in normal, not in failsafe mode) and allows you to set supplemental parameters.
BTW. is this a 64 bit or 32 bit install? Just for the record.