Hey guys. So I’ve been trying out different different Linux’s to dualboot with OSX, and I saw that openSUSE had a new version out so I thought I’d try it.
I downloaded the gnome 32 bit .iso, burned it to a CD using disk utility on OSX, then tried to boot it up on rEFIt. It just stays on a black screen with that little white underscore thing (like it’s going to give a message but it never does) and if I leave it on long enough it just closes.
I was suggested on GooglePlus to check the MD5 and that was fine.
Any suggestions on how to fix this? I’m really excited to try 12.1 out ^.^
From what I remember, disk utility burns .isos correctly. That could still be a problem though.
If you hold alt on boot do you get the OSX boot selection menu?
Yea, I’ve never had a problem with disk utility before… Like I said I’ve tried out a few different Linux distros and they all worked fine (boot wise)
And… I believe so… I think I can bypass rEFIt. Should I try?
Can you try it out on a different machine? 11.4 burnt and booted fine for me on 10.6.
Aha! Bypassing rEFIt worked. I just booted the CD from the normal boot selection screen on Mac.
Now my next question is (don’t know if you can answer this :P), when I’m installing this, when I get to the partitioning part of the installer, it… “auto selects” all the disks that it’s going to delete/format or what ever. These are the ones that it’s deleting imgur: the simple image sharer
Is all of that right? The partition I have for Linux is set at 100 something gb (I think I gave it a bit more for swap) But I don’t know what the rest of these are, I think Fedora made them when I tried installing it, like the logical volumes, and 200 MB on SDA/1.
I just don’t want to mess something up on OSX haha. I backed up some of it but there’s still alot there xP
I’m not an OS X guy, so I can’t tell you what those partitions are. I don’t like it’s trying to take out /dev/sda1.
You could possibly run fdisk in OS X and see if you can figure out what partitions are what or try to find out what paritions OS X installs.
Good luck.
Yea, I was about to do it then I saw sda1 and I was like hmmm no… that doesn’t seem right…
So, I’ll see if I can do it manually. The installer is laid out a bit different then Ubuntu which is what I’m used to so I’ll see 
Thanks for your help!
No problem. Feel free to post other questions.
If you do some searching, there are some good openSuse Installer Partitioning guides.