Troubleshooting the installer on a Dell Precision 5560

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Work let me keep my laptop when I left, which is a Precision 5560. It used to have Windows on it, and I’m trying to get Tumbleweed on the thing. It is resisting me. Both the DVD and the NET installer will do all the bootstrap-setup, get their install images from local (DVD) or network (NET), and do the presumed kexec to swap kernels to the new images to enter the GUI installer.

Which hangs with a cursor in the upper left corner, no text.

This is extremely reproducible so I’m in a spot to do some real digging. The problem is, it has been 10+ years since I did much with grub options for the installer, and never really did do much troubleshooting of that part of the bootstrap. I simply don’t know where to start examining things to identify what they core problem is.

Leap 16 kernel panics extremely early, even with Failsafe.

Ubuntu 25 had no problems.

Where do I start?

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@sysadmin1138 Hi, this is going to be dual boot? If dual boot then ensure at the final install page select grub-efi for the bootloader and not grub-bls. Also to future proof the system make sure /boot/efi is 4GB and finally at boot, edit the install grub menu and add nomodeset to the end of the line starting linux, this can be removed later…

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Windows has been appropriately vaporized, this will be single-boot.

nomodeset at the installer-grub got me all the way to the GUI installer, farther than I’ve been in a while. I had honestly forgotten this setting.

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