This is a new dual-boot system with Win10. The BIOS is UEFI but the disk setup is MBR.
The CPU is an i5-6500 and the graphics card is a nVidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti.
The splash screen is the one with a green light bulb on the right and a progress bar
in the center. I believe the progress bar gets to the end but it’s hard to tell given the
colors used.
Is this splash shown by GRUB or by OpenSuse?
How can I debug this? Is there a way from the GRUB editor to force a text mode boot?
Or turn off splash screens?
I’m a very longtime Linux user and once was pretty knowledgeable about stuff like this but
I haven’t paid much attention it in recent years. – Thanks
Okay, I’ve made some progress - googling discovered that using the GRUB editor to add plymouth.enable=0
and replacing “splash= silent quiet” with “splash=verbose” will get me to a text mode login. (They might be
redundant.)
Logging in brings up the same splash screen with a progress bar. Now it’s slow enough that I can see the
progress is completed. Then it hangs as before.
Problem fixed. For anyone else who comes across this, here’s what was necessary.
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Adding nomodeset as a GRUB boot option let me log in. I tried this because I saw that many people
have had issues w/ the non-proprietary nvidia driver “nouveau”. Screen resolution was like 640x480
which was what I expected.
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https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers has instructions on how to get the proprietary ones.
Using Yast at this resolution is awkward/humorous but it works. I was confused by the fact that none
of the listed drivers claimed to support the 700 series but “zypper inr” grabbed the right ones.