Have you tried booting with ‘nomodeset’ ?
Yes, I have to use nomodeset to force the graphics card to work
I am using the text mode with boot option nomodeset
yes, I seem to be inheriting problems with both my desktop and my wifes laptops - both use ATI Radeon graphics 
but having done some reading, it appears the issue is not to do with the graphics card per se but with the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for some reason it is failing to create this, and so hanging as it can not then process the drive partitions
LVM is an option. You don’t have to have it. Are you selecting installing on LVM partitions? LVM allow the dynamic grouping of multiple partitions into one logical one.Useful for large systems that need to expand not so much for personal systems.
LVM really should not enter into the picture unless you put it there.
It seems it is in the default installation on the openSUSE Gnome Live cd - I did not add/delete anything, just ran the setup (other than using the nomodeset boot option to make the graphics adapter work)
However, I have managed to install LinuxMint, so hopefully my problems will be soon over - just a few configuration tasks to carry out and then it will be job done 
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:46:03 GMT, dehawkinz
<dehawkinz@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>I ran Installation Media check, and it passed cd fine
>
>As I explained, when I tried creating 3 logical partitions with Parted
>Magic it constantly failed to correctly create the 3rd partition. But,
>it did successfully create 2 logical partitions and 1 Primary partition
>in the unallocated space.
>The reasons why the 3 partitions were created was, as suggested by
>caf4926, to provide an existing Linux file system that SUSE could
>identify.
>
>sda1 is the laptop recovery partition
>sda2 is the original windows partition
>sda3 is from the original windows installation*
>sda4-6 are what were created in the last pass
>
>* The original configuration my wife had was
>sda1 - recovery partition NTFS (primary)
>sda2 - windows OS partition (drive C) NTFS (primary) - boot partition
>sda3 - extended partition
>sda5 - windows partition (drive D) NTFS (logical)
>sda4 - windows partition (drive E) NTFS (primary)
Maybe the original sda4 had never been deleted, then perhaps you could not
access that disk space involved to make your desired sda7. IF this is the
case you will have to delete sda5, sda6, sda4 and sda3 and start from
there. If that is the case. If something else is going on i still do not
understand what has been done or the desired configuration.
?-)
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:36:02 GMT, dehawkinz
<dehawkinz@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>gogalthorp;2383675 Wrote:
>> LVM is an option. You don’t have to have it. Are you selecting
>> installing on LVM partitions? LVM allow the dynamic grouping of multiple
>> partitions into one logical one.Useful for large systems that need to
>> expand not so much for personal systems.
>>
>> LVM really should not enter into the picture unless you put it there.
>
>It seems it is in the default installation on the openSUSE Gnome Live
>cd - I did not add/delete anything, just ran the setup (other than using
>the nomodeset boot option to make the graphics adapter work)
>
>However, I have managed to install LinuxMint, so hopefully my problems
>will be soon over - just a few configuration tasks to carry out and then
>it will be job done 
I woouldn’t try to install from a live CD. It does use unionfs which
seems to be part of LVM, which may explain the LVM thing. you might tri
installing from the full install DVD where unionfs is not normally needed.
?-)