Hi, everyone.
I burned an 11.1 Live-CD to show of openSUSE to a Windoze friend of mine. It booted straight into a profile on my laptop but when I took it to my friend’s place it booted into a login screen with “linux” as the user name. Not a clue what the password is, though, so I couldn’t show it off to my friend :’(
Help, please!
Then the problem is the Live-CD couldn’t set up a GUI desktop. It should boot to a desktop without requiring a password. This happens if the video hardware cannot be automatically set up. You’d have to provide more details of the hardware for people to suggest what to try.
If it’s the live cd you are booting. It should just boot to UI.
If not - for the login password try linux for login and no password
if that fails try: linux - linux
Thanks for the quick reply!
Is this the case even though the log-in screen was the big green graphic-based one rather than just a text-based console-like screen?
Thanks for your quick reply also, caf.
I tried a number of possible passwords, including no password at all, linux (as that was the user name), password, user, openSUSE, Tux… nothing worked.
grant ito wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply!
>
> Is this the case even though the log-in screen was the big green
> graphic-based one rather than just a text-based console-like screen?
>
>
which Live CD did you download? (32, 64, pc, power, kde, gnome, what?)
where did you download from?
did you check the md5sum prior to burning the disk?
did you do a media check after the disk was burned?
bottom line: if the Live CD does not boot all the way to a working
desktop with NO log-in screen, something is wrong with the disk OR (as
‘ken yap’ noted) it can’t figure out how to set up the video…
my advice: check the install media and find out what graphics that
computer is using…
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Andy Sipowicz
Andy:
Thanks for your response.
It was the 32-bit KDE 4 cd from the openSUSE website. I did check the checksum and it was fine. I had booted from the cd on my laptop prior to visiting my friend and it worked fine.
~Grant.
> It was the 32-bit KDE 4 cd from the openSUSE website. I did check the
> checksum and it was fine. I had booted from the cd on my laptop prior to
> visiting my friend and it worked fine.
then it is having problems with the graphics card on your friends
computer…probably you just need, at the very first green screen to
press F3 (i think it is, for video choices) and pick one and try
it…NOT WORK?? try a different one until one works…800x600 almost
always works…
then, when the desk comes up you can start YaST go to hardware >
graphics and run the thing to push in the correct graphics card and
monitor…
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Andy Sipowicz
Thanks again for your response, Andy.
~Grant.
grant_ito:
I had the same problem when trying to load openSUSE 11.1 KDE LiveCD on my son’s desktop computer.
The CD would load up just fine on my computer, but on his it would stop at a GUI login screen showing the “Linux” user as an available option.
It didn’t matter which graphics mode we booted it with - XVGA, SVGA, VGA, VESA, etc. - it allways stopped at the same user login screen.
Then I tried booting up in plain text mode, and it worked!
Well, to be fair, you don’t get a Linux KDE desktop, but when prompted to login, it now accepts “root” as a user with no password required.
This is certainly not the purpose of a “LiveCD”, but it worked for me to start the “Live Installation”… simply start the “yast” configuration tool, go to “Miscelaneous”, then select “Live Installation”…
I was able to successfully install openSUSE 11.1 on my son’s desktop computer, and after rebooting, I had a fully working GUI KDE desktop at full resolution.
As to why the “LiveCD” load is not working, when you boot the CD in plain text mode you get a clear warning requiring at least 1GB of RAM to work, since the “LiveCD” version uses an in-memory disk to mount itself and install the “Live” desktop.
My computer has 4GB RAM, so it loaded up fine. My son’s computer has only 512MB RAM, so it failed to load the GUI desktop in “Live” mode. It worked fine after installing the OS onto his hard drive, though, as mentioned above.
I hope this helps other users having the same problem.
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I’m sorry - I tried every whichway I could, different desktops and finally text mode - no way.
It seems to take a very long time with, or just after, HAL - and for a distribution I heard described as the ‘most professional’ and ‘best installation’ I am seriously very disappointed - my internet connection is bad, this took me 3 days of stop-start downloading to get! Now it’s a coaster!!