I tried installing LEAP 42.1 on an Acer Aspire R11 (R3-131T-C56L). After some struggling with the UEFI BIOS I was able to boot from an USB net-install image.
I had to select Kernel “Safe Settings” to be able to boot the installer system. APIC failed, but the noapic option alone was not enough to start up correctly it seems…
Anyway, using those kernel safe settings I could smoothly install Leap on the laptop, overwrite the complete disk (hence wipe Windows).
But when the system the rebooted, I was presented with a graphical GRUB where text was displayed line per line, character per character. GRUB is very slow in responding to keystrokes as it is constantly busy refreshing the time-out line character by character.
When actually booting into leap, I see grub loading the kernel and initrd image… then suddenly all characters on the screen become unreadable rounded white blocks and after a while I see the screen refreshing a few times (which I asume is Xorg trying to start up) and then get a console login (I assume as it is still unreadable white blocks, but it resembles the console login screen :-))
Does anybody has any idea where to start to get Leap working ? How can I make the font readable for starters… Then I can probably start looking into why X is not starting…