Loading kernel hangs at 94% on Dell Studio XPS PP35L

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Hi all,

I was trying to install openSUSE 11.2 on Dell XPS Studio, model PP35L, but loading kernel hangs at 94%, I tried F5 for Safe Settings, No APIC, No Local ACPI, Check Installation Media, but it still hangs at 94%. Installation works fine on older computer. Is it because openSuse kernel doesn’t recognize the i5 Core processor yet? If this is caused by a driver, is there a way to display the kernel messages and what would be the kernel boot options to disable loading of that driver?

Thank you in advance,
David.

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On 07/06/2010 04:16 AM, davidluca wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was trying to install openSUSE 11.2 on Dell XPS Studio, model PP35L,
> but loading kernel hangs at 94%, I tried F5 for Safe Settings, No APIC,
> No Local ACPI, Check Installation Media, but it still hangs at 94%.
> Installation works fine on older computer. Is it because openSuse kernel
> doesn’t recognize the i5 Core processor yet? If this is caused by a
> driver, is there a way to display the kernel messages and what would be
> the kernel boot options to disable loading of that driver?

The i5 processor is recognized.

First, let’s find out where it is hanging. Once it starts booting, press
the ESC key to see the details of the boot process. What are the last few
lines that are printed to the screen when it hangs. Second, there may be
some step that needs to time out, so give it at least 5 minutes.

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First of all, thank you for your reply and sorry for answering this late, it took a while to download another iso image, but works fine now. The DVD type wasn’t “liked” by the laptop so I used a different one.

Thanks again,
David.