OpenSUSE 13.1 RC2 installer: Invalid Video Output

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When installing with openSUSE-13.1-DVD-Build0084-x86_64.iso on my desktop computer I am greeted with 3 menu options on boot: Install, Recover, and Check Media. After clicking install I end up with a message from my LG HD TV that it is receiving an Invalid Video Signal. This may be a conflict between OpenSUSE and my nVidia GeForce 770 GTX or the built-in gpu on my Intel Core i7 4770 cpu.

I am able to run many resolutions between 800x600 to 1920x1080 under Windows and Ubuntu, on this same setup.

Note that I was able to install OpenSUSE 13.1 RC2 using this same installation media on my HP laptop with an AMD APU.

Is there a textual installation option for this installation media? Has anyone else had similar issues with the installation media?

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Press ‘F3’ at the boot screen and select “No KMS” or “Text Mode”.

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3

Thanks for the suggestion, but this is what I see on boot:

http://www.eldave.com/images/WP_20131117_002.jpg

Pressing F3 does nothing.

Any ideas?

4

Now that looks strange (more like grub2).
Are you sure you are really booting off the DVD and not the hard disk?

If that’s really grub2 then you can press ‘e’ to edit the boot options. Search for a line starting with “linux” and append “nomodeset” to the end.
Then press ‘F10’ to boot.

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Okay, so this may be an issue with booting via UEFI. So, I press e on the first option and end up with the following text:


setparams 'Installation'

     set gfxpayload=keep
     echo 'Loading kernel ...'
     linuxefi /boot/x86_64/loader/linux
     echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
     initrdefi /boot/x86_64/loader/initrd

Should I add “nomodeset” after “linuxefi /boot/x86_64/loader/linux”?

EDIT: Yes, I should add “nomodeset” after this line. Thank you so much! Hopefully the installation goes smoothly.