For the life of me, I cannot even complete an installation of openSUSE 13.1…it just hangs on the “Install Boot Manager” part at 73% every-single-time. This is with both the GNOME and KDE Live ISO’s, and I’ve downloaded them each 2 separate times…SUSE just hates me I guess lol 
Any thoughts on what could be doing this? I’ve ran a smattering of different Linux distro’s on this hardware - Ubuntu, Mint, Arch, Fedora, Mageia, Manjaro - and always been able to at least install the OS. Thanks!
My installs usually spend a while, perhaps several minutes, of think time at that “install boot loader” step. How long are you waiting?
Is there anything odd about your install? Where are you installing the boot loader – the MBR or on a partition?
Do you have a separate “/boot” partition? Is it large enough? (Should be at least 200M, preferably bigger, if you use a separate “/boot”).
The longest delays that I have heard about at this stage, occurs when something in the system thinks there is a floppy drive, but there isn’t one. It takes a long timeout before it gives up on the floppy and continues the boot install. You might check your BIOS settings about floppy.
Ahhh, okay. I waited like you said and after a while it did go through…impatient lad my mother always told me lol!
Strangely enough, the NIC that was working on the Live ISO, I had to configure once the OS was installed before it would work lol. Now I’m up and running…I’m sure many more questions to come lol
There is also a bug in the kernel that hangs a long time if the BIOS says there is a floppy but none is actually installed. Fix the BIOS and the hang does not happen. Or wait it out.
I’ve already waited it out and my BIOS does not see any floppy drives, but thanks 
Working on installing the nVidia drivers now.
I’d assume there’s a way to upgrade the kernel in openSUSE?
it is not that it sees the floppy there is a check next to the floppy so it thinks there is a floppy. and reports to the kernel yep there is a floppy. but there is not so the kernel goes looking for the floppy can’t find it so then asks the BIOS you sure there is a floppy and the BIOS says yep I see a check next to the floppy entry must be one. OS says ok goes looking again. rinse and repeat. It eventually times out after 5-10 min or more.
It doesn’t see them, but it probably tells the kernel there are some.
Adding “brokenmodules=floppy” should have avoided that as well. (didn’t I tell you already in an earlier thread? 
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This should not be a problem any more in the next version (13.2) btw.
I’d assume there’s a way to upgrade the kernel in openSUSE?
You get kernel updates via the standard update repos. But there won’t be any new versions, the kernel will always be 3.11 although fixes will be backported from later kernel versions. (there is talk though that 13.1 will switch to 3.12 as standard kernel at some time)
If you want the latest kernel, you could add the Kernel:stable repo to your system.
But this is not at all recommended in combination with the nvidia driver, especially if you install them via the packages from the repo.
You should at least re-install the kmp packages then, so the kernel module will get re-compiled for the new kernel.
But if you don’t have a specific reason (like e.g. hardware that’s only supported in a later kernel), I would rather say don’t do that.
It’s not really worth the hassle IMHO.
Again, fixes do get backported to openSUSE 13.1’s 3.11.10 kernel.
I got you guys, thanks! (And yes wolfi, we discussed this before lol :))
Yea, I’ve got the nVidia drivers install and I’m installing the 300ish updates now. Strange issue, when I go into the “Network” option in “All Settings”, I get this - The system network services are not compatible with this version.
Any thoughts?
Is NetworkManager enabled?
YaST->Network Devices->Network Settings->Global Options
If you use “Traditional method with ifup”, GNOME’s NetworkManager support doesn’t work of course as NetworkManager is not running. You would have to use YaST to configure your network interfaces then.
If you enable “User-controlled using NetworkManager”, the desktop’s network services should work.
That’s perfect, thanks! I’ll just use the YaST tool…seems to have many of the things I might need anyway. Now time to try to get Dropbox installed
On 2014-08-19 22:36, EmpireITtech wrote:
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> I’ve already waited it out and my BIOS does not see any floppy drives,
> but thanks
We refer to this: Photo: Disable floppy in BIOS
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Yessir, and that’s done and been done on my BIOS since original set up. What I was meaning up there was that I waited it out and openSUSE GNOME did finally install on my PC. I’m still quite new to SUSE, so I’m fumbling around a lot and I’m sure I’ll have many more questions to post in new threads in the weeks to come. Thanks for all the help!!
Any way to mark the original post as [SOLVED]?
Strange that is the only thing I can think of that would have a significant timeout at that point of the install. Oh well you got it installed anyway so onward and upward:P