Unable to install TW without nomodeset

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Hi - I can’t install TW (snapshot downloaded 12/30/2022) without using nomodeset. Otherwise, installation hangs at ‘Starting udev…’.

Leap 15.2 & 15.3 both installed as expected, without issue. Had the same problem with previous TW snapshots (i.e., about a year ago).

I’ve been following this guide for troubleshooting, so far without success.
SDB:nomodeset

My inxi:
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/a1c9bc547cbc

How can I go about diagnosing and troubleshooting?

Appreciate any info.

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Install it with nomodeset and see, if it starts…

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Thanks for the reply - Installing with nomodeset succeeded the last time I tried, but I could never get the system to work correctly.

I’ll try what you suggest later in the week, when time allows.

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Hi,
I have an nvidia graphics card which is different from what you have.
Maybe you will find an idea in what I did.
The lat time I install tumbleweed was earlier this week and the installer won’t succeed without the nomodeset in the kernel lines. After the installation was finished, I installed all the requirements for installing the nvidia driver (in my case the .run file). I removed the nomodeset line in kernel parameters, blacklisted nouveau, do ldconfig then mkinitrd, then reboot to init 3 and installed the nviia driver.
In your case find or search the necessary requirement for your graphic card so it can run smoothly without the nomodeset.

For sure there are people here that is using similar to yours and one of them might be able to help.

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FWIW from OP’s paste:

Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] driver: amdgpu 
           v: kernel 
           Device-2: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
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Ok, I’ve got TW installed, but can’t boot without nomodeset. I’ve tried all combinations of nomodeset plus:

remove quiet, and/or
remove splash=silent, and/or
append plymouth.enable=0

The farthest along it has gotten is about 27 secs in, and amdgpu appears to load ok. That was removing quiet and removing silent, no append of plymouth.enable=0

Error message then was

systemd-journal[247]: Received SIGTERM from PID 1 (systemd)

What should I try next? Thanks for your help on this.