Installation of Leap 16.0 on a Core-i3 fails

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The PC is a Fujitsu Esprimo P1510 with an Intel Core-i3.

In the docs on Leap 16.0 I read, that x86-64-v2 or higher is required, with SSE 4.1 and SSE 4.2.

Booting the PC from an USB stick with Leap 15.6 on it, I am told that the Core-i3 processor has SSE 4.1 and SSE 4.2.

I checked the image of “Leap-16.0-online-installer-x86_64.install.iso” used for installation twice.
Firstly, using sha256sum, after the download.
Secondly, after copying the contents of the USB stick back to the HDD using dd.
The sha256sum was always the same.

Now, when I boot from the USB stick with the online installer of Leap 16.0, after some messages I end up with a blank screen with a text cursor blinking at the upper left corner of the screen.

After waiting for about more than 10 minutes I get a lot of error messages.

The last 2 lines are:

[xxx.yyy][ T1] systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.
[xxx.yyy][ T1] systemd[1]: Failed to start Cleanup of Temporary Directories.

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In my case it was the old gt710 nvidia card, self assembled pc with i3, I switched in BIOS to intern intel graphics.

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In the BIOS setup I get the following choices:

  • Standard CMOS Features
  • Advanced BIOS Features
  • Integrated Peripherals
  • Power Management Setup
  • Security Settings
  • H/W Monitor
  • Boot Features
  • Save Changes and Exit
  • Discard Changes and Exit
  • Get Default Values
  • Load Previous Values

Which one should I chose?

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Have you tried to install with
nomodeset

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Do you have a discrete GPU in addition to an Intel iGPU? If not, you don’t need to do what geoW did. Which i3 do you have? There’s a bug in the released support checker that inappropriately rejects some members of the Intel Core-i series CPUs due to its searching for two features that belong to v3. There are several threads here discussing this. You haven’t provided enough info for me to determine if that issue is what your failure is caused by. If you do have a discrete GPU, then you may need to apply nomodeset to the linu line via an edit at the installer boot menu.

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I once assembled a PC with a core-i5-2500 without any additional graphics card, because problems with those additional graphics cards (NVIDIA, AMD) have probably ever have lead to problems installing openSUSE, and because I stopped playing computer games more than a decade ago.

Now I didn’t have a close look at the PC with a core-i3 with which I had a problem installing Leap 16.0 on a USB stick to try out Leap 16.0.
In fact, according to “Info Center” it has a NVIDIA GT216 (GeForce GT 220) plugged, which I didn’t expect, because it is an office PC. And in retrospect I can see the physical graphics card very well on the back of that PC.

Now, hitting “e” at the boot menu of the installer I found a line that - compared to the respective lines in grub.cfg of earlier versions of Leap - for me was quite unusual:

linux ($root)/boot/x86_64/loader/linux ${extra_cmdline} ${isoboot}

However, appending a blank and nomodesetat that line did the job and the installation went through.

Thank you all very much!

Besides: The searching for two features that belong to v3 of the Intel Core-i series CPUs didn’t take place with the Leap 16.0 installer.
As far as I can see from the previous postings in this forum, this appears to me to occur with the opensuse-migration-tool, not with the Leap 16.0 installer.

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