Suse 11.2 - after installation an reboot - Blackscreen

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Hi @ all

After successfull installation of Suse 11.2 and reboot i get a Blackscreen.

When i try to start with “init 3” it´s still the same problem, Error Message in Bootlist

“Failed to get NUMA Memory Information from…”
Suse stops loading after “HAL DAEMON - DONE” and get´s a blackscreen.

If got a Nvidia Gforce 9400GT Graphic Card, and a Athlon 2 x2 Processor.

I loaded the DVD with Bittorrent and Checksume and Burning are o.k/successfull.

I also tried to reinstall with ext3 but still the same problem.

Are there any known issues/solutions for this Problem?

THX for your Support

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What spec have you on this computer?

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System is a Asrock ALiveNF6-GLAN Board with amd athlon 2 x2 240 Proz. 4GB Ram.

Before i installed Suse 11.2, 11.1 works without any problems on this computer.

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Boot to level 3
http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pNciYeh6RAWqePXplr55apci0IKmMLVSPOFfWs6iPVvzNCWXG7rFI4lmQbSpmdV-zjKzdaFxfQ5XJVC9-msJ4dg/level3%20boot.png

Then login as user
become su and do

**sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
**
(That’s a Zero=vesa)
Then type reboot

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Is there a difference to boot with “init 3” or only “3” ???

I tried to boot with:

Bootoptionen init 3

after this the Boot Window appears with “Failed to get NUMA Memory Information from…”,Suse stops loading after “HAL DAEMON - DONE” and gets a blackscreen.

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The screenshot showed you what to do.

Anyway, try it again if you think you didn’t do it that way.
Otherwise I suggest a memcheck from the DVD

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551135

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The boot with only “3” is still the same result.
I try to install 11.2 with GNOME instead of KDE…

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Installation with GNOME successfull, but still the same Problem…install now Suse 11.1 again an make the Update by 11.2 installation DVD…be continued

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Try this from 11.1
Upgrade/Supported - openSUSE

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Update from 11.1 by 11.2 Install DVD successfull…

Hope there will be a easyer “Fix” in the future :wink:

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Well done in persevering;)

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Came back. As I said I had the same problem with a lenovo T410 (SUSE 11.2 64 bit). I tried to follow the instructions but it did not work.

Then I tried to reinstall but instead of doing a complete re installation I chose update instead of new installation. Before doing that I chose the init 3 option.

SUSE presented me two linux partitions and only one with identification (so I did not see the swap partition, nor my home partition). The update did not work with one of the partitions so I tried with the other one. SUSE performed the update in the latest partition.

SUSE warns you about having a non-complete installation but you can continue.

Then I restarted and everything worked as expected. Then I followed the instructions and change the configuration to VESA.

Now the video works but the previous user I created during the installation is not there. Just created everything from root. Still there is some odd behavior. For example, no powerdown option so you can logout but kde poweroff is not present (it works from cli using shutdown)

Other aspects:

  • Yast does not provides network status, it indicates unknown (but you can control everything using rcnetwork/ifconfig related commands)
  • Display info. Intel Model Arrandale Controller but it says that driver is unknown.

but for now main issue (no graphic environment) is solved. Maybe as it was said 11.3 will solve it, so we’ll see.

Thanks for the post. I helped me.