Problem with 12.2 Intallation Media DVD

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hi,

I am trying to reinstall Opnsuse 12.2. I have downloaded the ISO file and checked it for errors (no errors). Upon trying to boot from the burned ISO image, I get the green splash scrren. When I select the ‘Installation’ option, I get some white text on a black screen, and then the screen hangs (black screen with a ‘_’). Any ideas of the problem?

Thank you,
db

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db,

could you please check the md5 sum of the dowloaded ISO? I’m not absolutely sure the media check covers that.
If the MD5 sum is correct, try burning the ISO at slower speed.
If your internet connection is good enough, I’d use the net install anyways.

Uwe

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Also try nomodeset May be a graphic card problem.

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[size=4]I got exactly the same problem with a Dell Precision T5400. I have verified it’s not a DVD issue as it perfectly continues the installation in my laptop. I have also excluded that it could be desktop’s DVD drive issue as I can perfectly install older versions (but neither 12.1).

Before the screen hangs there is a warning/error (sorry, don’t remember exactly): udevd[156]: RUN +=“socket” and this information when I googled it did not turn up useful as it is beyond my soft/hard expertise… :frowning:

I concluded it must an issue of incompatibility of the 12.x DVD with the Dell’s hard disk (Samsung) and gave up. I struggled a lot, and an online upgrade from 11.4 to 12.2 did not go well too…

So far I have resisted all my colleagues’ suggestions to switch to Ubuntu… I have managed to install SLED 11 SP2 for now, but I would be grateful if there could be some resolution to this as my trust to OpenSUSE has been seriously damaged…
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On 2012-09-25 12:36, eumelus wrote:
>
> I got exactly the same problem with a Dell Precision
> T5400. I have verified it’s not a DVD issue as it perfectly continues
> the installation in my laptop. I have also excluded that it could be
> desktop’s DVD drive issue as I can perfectly install older versions (but
> neither 12.1).

But you did not report the issue in bugzilla, so the devs never knew about this problem and
never could try to solve it. So, the same issue is back on the next version.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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I discovered it now, after 12.2 DVD failed, I tried 12.1 DVD (i had 11.4 before).

I will report it, thanks.