Hello, so I am trying to install openSUSE x86_64 13.1 on my Lenovo v560 (I5, 4GB, 7200rpm 500GB, nvidia and Intel GC, GB, wireless N, metal housing, etc, a decent machine), but it just hangs after reboot every time in the same place: “Preparing 1st…something” it’s the last thing I briefly see, than it gets into the Automatic configuration step where “Preparing configuration…” remains at 3% and Creating automatic configuration stays at 11%. Rebooting has no effect, waiting either. Grub seems to be working as it launches the openSUSE entry.
Tried new different options about 7-10 times but I get the same results: w/wout wireless, w/wout automatic configuration, ext4/btrfs, encypted /home, waited 30mins, the most basic install etc I also had issues on my self build desktop but I don’t remember exactly what I did… and was something different, whatever. Now my main problem is that it doesn’t throw a specific error, just gets stuck in the same place.
The only thing different from previous installations is that I wiped the hdd, along with the vendor partition (no problems, done that lots of times on other notebooks), the windows partition as I don’t want anywhere anything Microsoft from now forth, and the previous openSUSE. Created 3 partitions for swap, / and /home.
Had no problems with openSUSE 11.something, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3… What should I try?
Now doing a installation with NoKMS, no Autopmatic configuration and Safe Settings for the kernel. Also I will increase swap to 4GB, and create a boot partition, everything ext4. And will post back here. Thanks!