I’ve shrank my 2TB Hard Disk in order to reserve 500GB of free space (I want to set up a dual boot configuration with Windows10)
I’ve double checked the SHA256 signature with two different tools: MATCHED
I’ve configured the BIOS parameters: secure boot OFF and fast boot OFF
I’ve wrote the iso image onto a USB drive (with image usb) and, when I booted, the system got stuck on the “green bar” after the first menu (install - media check - upgrade - recover)
I’ve wrote the iso onto another usb stick using a different tool (universal usb installer this time) and the system got stuck like before
Finally I’ve writed the iso onto a DVD using the windows image writer, the result was the same as before.
The strangest thing is that on the previous attempt the symptoms were the same as now! But using a different iso (I’ve downloaded again on the last attempt) and different BIOS settings.
Oh, and I tested the tumbleweed live dvd, it boot an run perfectly without problems at all…
They do have the same drivers, but in different versions.
Tumbleweed always contains the latest versions (including the kernel and the graphics stack), might work better depending on your system, but might also have problems (sometimes temporary) that are not there in a stable release.
I would suggest to press ESC when the boot hangs as a first step, to see error messages that might be displayed.
To see whether it’s indeed a graphics driver problem, you could also try to add “nomodeset” to the boot options. This uses a generic fallback that should just work in any case.
To do so, boot the installation DVD and press ‘e’ at the boot menu (before you select “Install”), look for the line starting with “linux” or “linuxefi” and append “nomodeset” at the end, then press ‘F10’ to boot the installation.
If that works, it’s likely a graphics driver problem which you probably can fix by installing a proprietary driver in the installed system.
In that case, specifying the exact card(s) you have is important for further help.
In that case, the installer (and the installed system) runs on the intel chip by default (unless you disabled it in the BIOS settings, most Optimus laptops don’t support that anyway though AFAIK), and shouldn’t have a problem because the intel driver is quite well supported as intel itself develops it (and releases it as open source).
If it is running on the nvidia chip, a problem with nouveau (the open source driver for nvidia cards) is quite likely though, and there could also be a bug in the intel driver that affects you, so I’d still try the “nomodeset” option.
Please note, that you should NOT install the standard nvidia driver on an Optimus system, unless the intel chip is disabled.
It will break the intel driver and give you more problems than it solves.
One way to switch between intel and nvidia graohics is the so-called “Bumblebee”, but that’s stuff for afterwards, when you succeeded to install.
I’m proud to talk at you via my fresh installation of Leap 42.1! rotfl!
Finally I wrote the installation image on a DVD using Brasero on another machine, then put the DVD in and crossed my fingers! The installation gone fine, Windows is still reachable by GRUB and I’m very happy!
So now I learned that Windows default image writer it’s a bad piece of software and Usb drives sometimes works bad!!! @.@
But I still have to fix some things:
The OS cannot load if I not add “nomodeset” in the kernel parameters (by default I think my laptop uses the built in Intel chip): some errors “noveau … ERROR” appears on the screen and the system reboots.
If I add “nomodeset” the system load and start perfectly (so there are definitely problems with intel graphic chip I think) but I’m not able to see the screen brightness selector if I click on the battery icon (I’m using KDE) and the FN keys for screen brightness doesn’t works.
The other fn shortcuts (keyboard brightness and volume up - down - mute) works perfectly.
How can I fix that?
p.s. I noticed 1 sec ago that yast is telling me that big updates are available (some of them regards X server…) maybe this will resolve all my problems! I hope so!!
Notebook with Intel + NVIDA GPU??? This is called Optimus and is a special hardware configuration to all the Intel and NVIDIA chips to work together. Un fortunatly NVIDA does not support this on Linux. But there are some work arounds.
Warning DO NOT install the regular NVIDA driver
Bumblebee Note use 42.1 any place you see 13.2 or 13.1 to get the correct repos
Optimus without bumblebee. This is currently being developed by some users and looks promising but may be tricky to implement since it does require making some script programs
Ok guys, I’ve finally set up my system.
I’ll write just a few rows to explain my workaround in order to fix the installation problems for those who have an Asus N series with built in Intel(R) Hd Graphics 4600 and discrete video card Nvida Geforce Gtx 850m, I hope to be helpful
Bios set up: both “fast boot” and “secure boot” options disabled (thanks to gogalthorp).
(Windows Dual boot configuration) Shrink your hard disk with Windows partiton manager.
Kernel parameters : “nomodeset” and "acpi_osi= ". The first one can be removed when the bumblebee packets are installed, the second one is for the screen brightness control via fn keys. (thanks to wolfi323and OrsoBruno)
Write the iso on a DVD using brasero or other Gnu/Linux tools (absolutely not the default windows image writer!) (thanks to OrsoBruno)
Once installed the Os, go for the first rich update, install the bumblebee packet and remove “nomodeset” from kernel parameters.
If you want, install the bumblebee-nvidia and bumblebee-nvidia-32 (even if you have a 64bit architecture) in order to use your discrete video card, I’ve noticed no problems at all.
(Windows Dual boot configuration) I noticed that it’s not a problem leaving “fast boot” enabled into Windows IF YOU DON’T HAVE ANY DATA PARTITION SHARED with openSuse.
