I have just finished installing openSUSE 11.1 on my double partitioned hard drive.
The installation was smooth and I didn’t get any errors. Now when I start my computer I get the boot loader, I choose XP … it works fine (I’m currently in XP)
But when I choose openSUSE, I get the logo with the grey/metal bar filling up, and then after that just a blank black screen !! nothing is showing !! So I still haven’t been inside the openSUSE OS !! I don’t know why it is doing this !!
Can someone please tell me how I can fix this problem ?
vga=0x314 is simply the resolution of the terminal that the kernel will be booted up with. its 800x600 which should not be an issue, but your free to remove it put nothing there to see if that helps, it will then just default to a low resolution.
1- the moment you hit enter on the opensuse entry and you get the splash screen press ESC to see what is happening. Maybe something there will give you a clue/error msg with which you can search further.
2- an option would be to add some extra option behind the 0x314 (make sure you put a space between the options) some of the options you could try (I would say 1 at a time) could be:
these are basicly the option used when booting safemode, my guess would be that acpi=off will work, either way once you know what switch you need search the forum, some issue are resolved by changing a bios setting.
