suse 11.2 64 installation hangs at "Loading basic drivers"

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I am trying a new install of opensuse 11.2 64 on my computer. I have tried all the F key options at the bottom of the installation screen but when loading the installation hangs at “Loading basic drivers…”

I get the same issue with the 32 bit version of 11.2 and the 64 bit version of 11.1.

The 32bit of 11.1 proceeds to install only to crash out with error 3030 when it tries to format an lvm parition.

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  1. tell us what hardware.
  2. did you check the ISO md5 checksums before burning?
  3. sis you run the media check from the CD?
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  1. My hardware is as follows. Let me know if there is any software to produce more detailed specs.

Motherboard
MSI K8T Neo FISR2

CPU
AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 3000+

RAM
2GB

Graphics Card
ATI Radeon 9600XT AGP

Hard Disk Drives
2 x SATA hard disk drives set up as RAID 1 on the onboard Promise 20378 RAID controller. I have a small none lvm boot partition and two lvm partitions, one for root and one for home.

1 x EIDE hard disk drive with single none lvm partition for backups.

DVD Drives
1 x TSSTCorp DVD-ROM
1 x LG DVDRW Drive

Other
1 x internal floppy disk drive
1 x internal USB Avex AX1611 card reader

I am currently running opensuse 10.3 64.

  1. I did check the md5 sums and they were ok.

  2. Sorry I did not make myself clear. I cannot check the media because the installation does not get that far. After choosing Installation on the opening screen, various lines of text scroll up the display and then hangs at “Loading basic drivers…” I do not get as for as the time zone screen etc or the option to check the media that I got with opensuse 10.3 64.

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The media option should be on the first menu.

No swap??

The ATI card may be the culprit The new kernel does not like ATA cards and you must do special chants and hand waving to get it to work. Though there should be no problem with 11.1

Not at all sure about mixing lvm and raid. Sounds quirky dangerous to me. Lets pile on all the layers of tech we can sort of thing.

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Sorry, I realised I was using a CD off Linux Format Magazine. I have downloaded 11.2 64 from the suse website. Md5s are OK and Check installation is on the first screen.

However, it still hangs at “Loading basic drivers…” but Alt+Ctrl+F4 shows:

clocksource tsc unstable
end-request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
message repeats

I am googling this.

Sorry, I do have an lvm swap partition

I would not expect the graphics cards card to cause a problem until possibly the first boot of the newly installed system. I have asked the installation to use the vesa driver.

The RAID is hardware RAID so sda and sdb are just mirrored. Having a small none lvm boot partition and the remaining partitions lvm is the recommended method.

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Who recommended lvm???

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OK, perhaps I should have said, if you choose LVM (something I am beginning to regret) you should have boot on a none LVM partition.

I have got Suse 11.2 64 to get past “Loading basic drivers…” with the boot option CPUFreq=no.

However, just in case the installation crashes out and mucks up my 10.3 installation, I am researching dual booting 10.3 and 11.2.

I will the post the results.

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Swap should NOT be LVM. LVM is a pain anyway but never ever swap.

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I am having the same issue. I am trying to install 11.2 on my 64-bit PC which already has windows XP on it. I am trying to install suse 11.2 along with windows xp. Any suggestions

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You should start a new thread and say more then you are having problem. What problems???