Last night I tried to install opensuse 12.2. I had previously tried to do a system upgrade (from 11.4), but when the upgrade was over, upon booting there was some screen corruption and then a black screen with a square blob for a mouse cursor.
The install from DVD went fairly smoothely. But again on reboot I had the same black screen and blob cursor. Safe mode seemed to work. Hardware: a HP z400 with nVidia Quadro FX 380.
The other problem is that I use Solaris 11 grub to boot the PC, and the install from DVD hijacked the MBR. I booted from the Solaris 11 live DVD and restored Solaris grub, but it doesn’t seem to be able to boot opensuse (I simply chain boot). Is there some option that I missed to tell the installer to put the boot code in the primary partition rather than the MBR? The error that I get is
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format.
Is there some way to do this if I boot from the install DVD?
And for the screen corruption, with a bit of googling, it seems like ‘nomodeset’ might help.
You must understand that these forums are for openSUSE users to help openSUSE users. That knowing you will be aware that openSUSE users are doing this in their spare time. In that spare time they will glance through the titles of nw threads to ee if there is one where they could help. This means that a good title is essential to get good help.
Thus, lease, please. Do not mix problems in one thread. The answers will mix also and in the end nobody will understand any more what is about what.
Also instead of having two threads with two telling titles, you have now one thread with a title that says almost nothing. Everybody starting a thread here has a problem and a fair amount of them are about booting. This will not be attractive to the people that might be able to help you.
Especialy the one that involves Solaris. You must be aware that using that you are an exception. Thus mentioning that prominently in the title might draw the attention of other people using it. Hiding this fact deep inside a multi problem story will not help you.
Yes, probably. However, you might find it easier to just reinstall 12.2. If you do that, then do a minimalist install (don’t select optional software), to speed things up. You can add the other software later.
The important step, during install, is the “Boot” setup. After you have gone through the partitioning section and given the loginid you want to use, look on the left side of the installer screen. There are several sections, and one of those is booting (I don’t remember the exact wording).
Click on that. You will see where the installer wants to install booting. You must change that to the root partition (probably listed as “/”). You must turn of “set the active flag”. And you must turn off “write a generic MBR” if that is selected.
When you install that way, then the chain loading from your existing grub (the solaris one) should do what you want.
In any case I hope next time he (and everybody that reads this) will try to understand that the way you present things are of utmost importance to the goal of getting the right peolpe to read it.
Your point is well taken. I read this forum by looking at the titles, and then deciding which to read. A clear title is the best way of getting the attention of those most likely to be able to help.
I fixed the grub problem by redoing the install, and taking care to hunt down the right page with the option to install the boot code to the primary partition rather than the MBR.
And I fixed the screen corruption by installing the nVidia driver with the aid of google and a couple of web pages.
Can’t say I’m impressed by the warm welcome here. Lots of criticism verging on being insulting. Only nrickert replied with anything positive and constructive.
> Can’t say I’m impressed by the warm welcome here. Lots of criticism
> verging on being insulting. Only nrickert replied with anything positive
> and constructive.
I don’t think so.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
