I installed 11.3. After the installation, the installer says that it
is going to boot the new system. It brings up the splash screen
with the Open Suse Lizard and hangs up. If I shut down the computer
at that point and reboot, I get the startup screen which asks if
I want Open Suse 11.3 or Failsafe Open Suse 11.3. If go with the
default, I again get the lizard splash screen, the screen blanks for
a second and the lizard comes back and I am again hung up.
The second time I went with Failsafe, and the installer did the automatic
configuration and everything seems fine. But I still hang up when
I choose Open Suse 11.3. I can ONLY get to the failsafe system.
I’ve gone through the entire installation twice. Both times give the same
result.
On 2010-08-17 01:36, Larry1019 wrote:
>
> I installed 11.3. After the installation, the installer says that it
> is going to boot the new system. It brings up the splash screen
> with the Open Suse Lizard and hangs up. If I shut down the computer
> at that point and reboot, I get the startup screen which asks if
> I want Open Suse 11.3 or Failsafe Open Suse 11.3. If go with the
> default, I again get the lizard splash screen, the screen blanks for
> a second and the lizard comes back and I am again hung up.
> The second time I went with Failsafe, and the installer did the
> automatic
> configuration and everything seems fine. But I still hang up when
> I choose Open Suse 11.3. I can ONLY get to the failsafe system.
>
> I’ve gone through the entire installation twice. Both times give the
> same result.
Take a note of the diferent settings in the failsafe mode, copy then one at a time to the standard
mode, and try booting. One of the settings should do the trick. Then ask here.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Do either of you have a Broadcom BCM4312? If so, there are some machines that
have a problem. Try adding “brokenmodules=ssb” to the Boot Options line in GRUB.
What is a Broadcom BCM4312?? The problem I see seems to be identical
to the known Bug. I have a home built computer with a quad core AMD
Phenom II (also 64bit). So do I just download the 32 bit Suse and give
up on 64bit?
I’d try the brokenmodules=ssb line but where is the Boot Options line
and how do I get to it?
the Broadcom BCM4312 is a network card, was popular with HP releases. ““The BCM4312 provides one-chip IEEE 802.11a/b/g MAC, baseband, and direct conversion dual-band radio functions for wireless LAN connectivity supporting data rates from 1 Mbps to 54 Mbps in the 2.4-GHz or 5-GHz bands.””" I am using the same processor as you the AMD Phenom II and running 64 bit, and had no real prob as far as set up and hanging other then that caused by my graphic card. Caused a black screen with a green line through it that I finally got fixed. ATI and linux sigh
The command line that I believe he is talking about is the one were you see option too boot Opensuse 2.6.34 (Default) and the safe mode option. If you start to type you will notice that the line at the bottom of the screen will take down what you are typing. that is the “boot options line” when you start to type, it also stops the auto start timer so you can take your time. or use the up down arrow key to stop the timer also. Here is also were you would do what 'Carlos E. R. is talking about too.
On 2010-08-17 07:36, Larry1019 wrote:
>
> What is a Broadcom BCM4312?? The problem I see seems to be identical
> to the known Bug. I have a home built computer with a quad core AMD
> Phenom II (also 64bit). So do I just download the 32 bit Suse and
> give
> up on 64bit?
Try what I said first.
> I’d try the brokenmodules=ssb line but where is the Boot Options line
> and how do I get to it?
The very first screen a second after the bios message.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
OK – this is getting serious. I tried the brokenmodules=ssb boot option. No joy.
I downloaded the 11.3 32 bit version and tried it – it fails EXACTLY the same way
I installed the 11.3 32 bit version on a different hard disk. Same failure.
I note that all these variants will boot the failsafe system. NONEwill boot the default
system. It’s hard to believe that there is some weird hardware interaction if I can
run the install system and the failsafe system, but not the actual system.
Just for the record, I have an AMD Phenom II X4 processor (3.2 Ghz) mounted on an
ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard with 4 Gb of Kingston DDR3 memory.
I suppose my next attempt will be to download a version of 11.2 and try that, but
that will take a few hours.
Well, nomodeset allowed me to get past the hangup and run the default version of 11.3.
However, based on what it says in the release notes and what my monitor was doing,
I don’t think I would have realized to try it on my own. Thanks for pointing it out.
The system still only seems to recognize the video (ATI) on my motherboard and not my add on
PCI (ATI) video card. I did get that card working under 11.1, with a different motherboard, so it
looks like I need to take a good look at the full release notes file on configuring graphics cards.
On 2010-08-18 08:06, Larry1019 wrote:
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> Carlos –
>
> I tried the brokenmodules=ssb command. It didn’t work. However,
> nomodeset suggested by oldcpu does work.
I suggested you tried ALL the failsafe mode switches, one by one, till you found the one that
worked, in my first message in this thread. One of those switches is, precisely, nomodeset.
I did not suggest anything about ssb.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))