Raspberry Pi 2 install problems

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Currently driving myself crazy trying to get openSUSE running on my Raspi Pi2.

Have just got got back into openSUSE running Leap 42 on my HP laptop and really enjoying it - a great distro!

However really struggling to get the ARM version running on my Pi 2.

Have followed the instructions on this page: https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi2

I downloaded the JeOS XFCE image and had no problems extracting it onto my 16Gb SD card which has previously run Raspbian without any problems.

Have a standard Rasp. Pi 2 (with correct power supply) connected to a BenQ monitor via HDMI

Power on the Pi for its first start up and I have a blank screen for a few minutes followed by text which scrolls through showing the card being formatted with GPT.

I am then left with a flashing cursor - no request to setup user or password

The only way to proceed further is for me to switch into another terminal tty2 and then login as root

I am able to start up Yast2 in ncurses mode but have not been able to get into the X Window server and hence GUI - each time I do a reboot I end up with a blank screen and flashing cursor and have to change to another terminal to login

If I type in startx receive a screen full of text stating can’t connect to X Window server

I am determined to get this up and running but felt close to giving up yesterday. :frowning:

Am grateful for any advice as to how to proceed - Thanks

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Upload you /var/log/Xorg.0.log to http://susepaste.org/ so someone could have a look why Xserver is not started.

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Okay - thanks for that - will try and do that tomorrow

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Here is the first page of the above file. Sorry I’m a bit of a noob at this. Is the enough info there or do I need to upload some more pages?

http://susepaste.org/97371200

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IMO not enough info, so far it looks like the OS is looking for config values and not finding them but so far is just applying default values.

If you have network connectivity (USB?) (ethernet?), then you can transfer the file in its entirety to another machine or directly to SUSE PASTE.

Even if you xserver is not running, have you tried running basic network commands and maybe even YAST (ncurses mode)?

A small collection of commands you might try to see what is returned

ip addr
yast
journalctl

TSU