I wanted to switch over from mint to openSUSE. So i downloaded the ISO file and made a bootable USB drive. Now when i run the bootable USB drive i get the screen where i can choose to install, upgrade and so on. When I choose install or anything else a black console screen pops up with “loading kernel” on there and it is just stuck there. Does anyone know what the problem is?
I know it works in a virtual machine so it’s not the ISO file.
Note that booting Installer in legacy will default to install using MBR booting. As long as there is only one OS involved that is not a problem but may break multi-boot
nouveau.modeset=0 might work where nomodeset failed to help in UEFI mode. Nomodeset applies to both your GPUs, while nouveau.modeset=0 only disables KMS for the NVidia. Intel GPUs really want KMS working.
plymouth=0 might also help to get UEFI going.
Something else to try to get the installer running in UEFI mode - force an old widely supported video mode that doesn’t require nomodeset. e.g. XVideo=1024x768 appended to the linux line using the E key when the first boot menu appears. Your CPU is a Skylake, which might help to find a specific cmdline option to help that others don’t need.
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Linuxrc has lots of possible installation boot options. It’s where I found XVideo=, and a reminder about others I’ve used in the past.
