Now, openSUSE 42.2 has been released, I decided to give it a try again thinking that those UEFI bugs should have been ironed out.
Unfortunately, I am not able to install openSUSE 42.2 on my ThinkPad T450s still.
With SecureBoot enabled, the same error message appears: “Image failed to verify with ACCESS DENIED. Press any key to continue.”
This is quite weird since openSUSE have signed SecureBoot certificate.
With SecureBoot turned off, I got a total black screen with no error messages at all this time.
I waited for a few minutes, then the laptop rebooted itself automatically.
The installation USB drive was created by using SUSE Studio Imagewriter on another computer with openSUSE installed.
May be a video problem. blank screen problem . Also with secure boot you must boot and install in EFI mode. Also must check the secure boot box and some machine may not install but with it on but will work ok if you turn it on after install and you checked the box.
AMD has dropped support for many older chip sets so may need to force radion driver
Any how try at the boot screen press e should bring up a text editor find the line starting linux or linuxefi go to the end of line (press end key) add a space and nomodeset.That will force use of a fall back driver that should get you installed and basically running do a update and perhaps the Intel driver starts working. If not let us know
I have a Lenovo ThinkServer TS140. As it initially came, I had to turn off secure-boot. By now, it works after some BIOS updates.
The problem was that the opensuse “shim.efi” file is signed with two signatures. And the ThinkServer firmware would only deal with one signature. There’s an opensuse Wiki page about secure-boot which says how to get around this problem. But maybe check if there is a BIOS update for your system.
With SecureBoot turned off, I got a total black screen with no error messages at all this time.
I waited for a few minutes, then the laptop rebooted itself automatically.
Probably a video driver problem. If you can add “nomodeset” to the end of the boot line, you can probably boot the installer. Hit ‘e’ on the grub menu, and scroll down looking for the line that begins “linux” (or “linuxefi”). Scroll the the end of the line and append " nomodeset". Then hit F10 to continue booting.
Thanks for suggestions from both of you.
Yes. There are new BIOS updates available for my machine. I will try that later.
For the video driver part, I got a total black screen after the POST sequence.
The GRUB menu is not visible right now.
Do I just press e at the total black screen and blindly type in all of the above mentioned commands?
Yes. That is really weird.
I will try to create the bootable USB drive with dd instead of SUSE ImageWriter this time.
Perhaps it’s not a display driver related issue.
also try several flashdisks (or cardreaders if you use sd cards). I have several flash drives and card readers. From my experience: 1) kingston cardreader not work fine on thinkpad X,T series laptops, dell latitude, hp probook, elitebook, samsung laptops. 2) unknown cardreader from china not work on hp elitebook, hp folio, dell latitude, but work fine on Thinkpad, samsung 3) flash disk silicon power 16Gb not work on some samsung laptops, some fujitsu laptops from japan. Apparently different controllers are defined differently and are seen by bios. Also from my experience sometimes, but not always, the flashing of the bios helped to fix the situation or change it.
Didn’t thought of this. As you have mentioned, I am using a Silicon Power flash drive. (It works with my Fujitsu laptop though.)
I will try another Sandisk flash drive and see how it works with the ThinkPad.
Wow! That did the trick.
I have switched to a Transcend drive and it boots now even with SecureBoot turned on.
However, the following error message appeared when I select the “Verify Installation Media” option. Do I need to be concerned? I have already checked the SHA-256 hash of the ISO file and it is correct.
Thanks!
How are you writing the image to the USB? It appears you may be using a Linux boot helper program of some sort. openSUSE does not need that and should only be transferred to USB by a binary copy to the USB drive (not a partition on said drive) Without any modification like adding sysLinux.
I’m glad that it turned out to help.
As for the checksum checks, I usually checked only the downloaded image. And if everything is ok with him, then just install them.
Clearly in the system can not work all as expected, but in any case, developers of the OpenSUSE thank you so much for the work done, because it works and in some cases is not worse than FreeBSD for stability
That’s normal if you write the ISO to an USB drive.
The media check only works as intended if you do it with a CD/DVD.
The reason AFAIK is that an USB drive has a different size, which affects the hash calculation.
Also the drive is writable, and it will be modified if you boot from it.
Thanks a lot.
I am replying this from the openSUSE Leap 42.2 I have just installed.
By the way, I have to turn off SecureBoot again to install ThinkPad-specific tlp packages.rotfl!
