this is on an asrock Z97 Extreme 6 motherboard, UEFI.
have a MSI GTX970 graphics card installed and displayport going to a benq 27" monitor.
have one 80GB sata hard drive installed off a single SATA port.
I can boot from the opensuse 13.2 dvd and go either way… UEFI FAT32 dvdrom or AHCI dvdrom in the boot menu.
The UEFI way is what i want, and i get a non-graphical grub-efi boot screen where i hit enter to kick off the install,
the AHCI dvdrom boot gives me the nicer graphics window with the install option.
Either way it gets to “starting udev…” and hangs there.
I’ve tried many different things, made sure the ROM’s in the bios were all set to legacy and in the AHCI boot mode I chose F5 safe kernel settings and that went into a kernel panic immediately and died. I also updated the asrock bios last night to the latest, no help.
by the way, i can install SLES 11.4 for x86-64 and SLES 12 from dvd on the same rig no problem!
and i’ve used the same opensuse 13.2 install dvd and it worked installing on a dell optiplex 760 pc with no graphics card not too long ago.
what’s the deal?
Problem is the card. You need to use a simpler driver. At the boot menu screen do you see selections at the bottom if so you are in legacy mode. You can select noKMS in one of the options (F3 Ithink). If not in then and you are booted in EFI mode then press e find line starting linux= and go to true end (it wraps) add a space and nomodeset. This will force a more compatible video driver which should work with that advanced card. After install you will need to use the NVIDA proprietary driver.
Since you want an EFI install be sure you boot the installer in EFI mode NOT legacy
Trouble is that the open source nouveau driver and kernel in 13.2 does not support the 970s and you need to proprietary one or use the older generic ones until you get the proprietary one
On the boot menu, hit the ‘e’ key. That should allow you to edit the boot command.
Scroll down until you see a line beginning “linux” (or, actually, “linuxefi”). Append " nomodeset" (without the quotes) to the end of that line. Then continue with boot (the screen tells you how to do that).
You should be able to install. Then you will want to install Nvidia drivers on the running system for better graphics.
tried nomodeset on the uefi boot, no luck.
tried the NO KMS on the AHCI boot, no luck.
both hang after starting udev…
if i do ctrl-alt-del within 20 seconds or so after starting udev…
my motherboard will reboot. after 30 seconds everythings dead and i have to hard reset.
also in the CSM settings,
i have launch PXE OpROM set to DO NOT LAUNCH,
storage OpROM = legacy only
video OpROM = legacy.
I have tried these as uefi only, did not help.
I also connected an older 19" monitor, set my onboard video = enabled with video OpRom = legacy and booted AHCI with NO KMS set, still hangs after starting udev.
this is using the white DVI connector on motherboard, there is no blue vga.
i’m setting splash=verbose, is there any way to get extra verbose to see what in udev is causing the problem?
only thing i did not try was physically removing the msi gtx970, and a sound blaster pcie-x1 5.1 sound card.
Other have gotten it to work with more or less the same hardware.
I’m guessing it is hanging at the install right or did it install and it hangs on the reboot. Little unclear what stage it hangs??
I guess the CPU has a built in GPU. try turn it off in the EFI BIOS. having mixed GPU in the system can be a pain to setup
If you boot in legacy mode the installer will want to install as a legacy partition setup With EFI you get GPT so it makes a different how you boot. In legacy you have DOS partitioning. So you have to deal with primary, extended and logical partitions