opensuse 12.2 live usb gnome not booting

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When I boot the 12.2 gnome live usb (64 bit) i get the following errors and boot hangs:

“initramfs unpacking failed: uncompression error”

“kernel panic - not syncing: no init found”

I downloaded the iso with torrent so the image should be complete

I made my live usb using imagewriter on windows 7, no persistance

my laptop is a HP touchsmart tm2 1090

thank you very mich for any help

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Why not give my bash script a try you run form openSUSE?

S.C.L.U. - SuSE Create Live USB - Version 1.12 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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I did as you suggested and I still get the same hang

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Do you have the ability to make a LiveCD at all and if so, could you try the same Gnome image you have? You could try a kernel load option from the boot screen. Press ‘e’ to edit, move your cursor to the linux load line, go to the end of the line (end button), press the space bar and try ‘acpi=off’ and/or ‘nointremap’. Have a look here on how I add a ‘3’ as a kernel load option:

How to Start openSUSE 12.2 with Grub 2 into Run Level 3 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

In general, if a LiveCD does not work, neither will a LiveUSB and it could be a compatibility issue with your computer or with the USB thumb drive you are trying to use if you feel the ISO file you have downloaded is not corrupted.

Thank You,

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On 09/18/2012 01:06 AM, algarues wrote:
> I did as you suggested and I still get the same hang

how did you run a bash script in your Win7?

please check your downloaded iso using the instructions here:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help#Checksums

and, then once certain you have a good image use the instructions
referenced in this paragraph to try to make a bootable USB stick:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help#Burn_the_ISO_image.28s.29

and, let us know how it goes…

you probably should also want to preview the install process here:

http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-startup/art.osuse.installquick.html

and the new to openSUSE hints here:

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/new-user-how-faq-read-only/424611-new-users-opensuse-pre-install-general-please-read.html

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/new-user-how-faq-read-only/477124-new-users-opensuse-12-2-pre-installation-please-read.html

–
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How did you get this incredible idea that I ran the bash script on windows 7?
Are you some sort of superhacker that sneaked into my computer while I was preparing my USB live image?

I have been so silly to prepare it on another linux distro that lays on my hard disk

I also have installed linux a million times on several computers, not to mention that I already used Suse for years

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Dear James

that is exactly the problem that I have in the sense that my laptop does not have an optical drive and I do not have an external one to boot from

The error message that I get at the beginning is weird, because I do not get it from other live distros as well as when I prepared Live USBs from older versions of openSUSE running on the same computer

I already tried acpi=off but not the other option.

If it does not work then it is ok, I will try again with 12.3

Thank you anyway

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This might do the trick:

  • First completely clean the USB device, let’s say it’s /dev/sdb, I guess you know which /dev/sd* entry you should have.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb

Now rewrite the image to the USB device like you’ve done before, and try to boot from it. Explanation: I’ve seen the weirdest errors on some USB-sticks that (after close examining) seemed to have remains of a previous image still on it. Looks like these cannot handle the hybrid filesystem.

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Thank you for the dd-based trick to erase the disk

before doing that should I format the USB device as “fat” or “fat32” ?

I have to say that the kernel panic that I have seem to call the PCI address of my video card

Indeed my laptop is a HP touchsmart tm2 1090, which as a “funny” dual video card bus

it is funny because the laptop has a locked bios and I cannot switch one of the two cards off, unless from OS after boot

So I cannot test whether it would safely boot with one of the two cards only

Thanks Anyway, I will give it a try

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So video can always be the culprit for any case where the default driver does not want to work causing openSUSE all sorts of problems. It happens with nVIDIA and AMD sometimes and surely with any dual video setup. Using the kernel load command called nomodeset is often the only way to get around the issue.

Thank You,

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I tried also using the solution suggested by Knurpht, but it did not work anyway

I am afraid that it might have nothing to do with suse, but rather with the newer kernel in general and my hardware,

since I could boot older suse live images

let’s see what happens when I’ ll try to install other distros with kernel 3.4

for the moment I am giving up

thanks anyway

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I am getting exactly the same problem with the KDE Live CD which I put on a USB still. I don’t understand because I successfully installed 12.1 on this computer using the same USB stick using the same method and it worked fine then. My hard drive failed so I am having to install openSUSE from scratch again and it is not working with 12.2. Any ideas? Can anyone verify that they get the same behaviour?

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When you boot from your properly made USB stick, what do you see? Did you know you can press the ESC key and stop the Plymouth display?

Thank You,