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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] 11.2 on a Thinkpad T410
From:       "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas () telefonica ! net>
Date:       2010-04-29 6:51:22
Message-ID: 4BD92C6A.9090807 () telefonica ! net
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On 2010-04-29 02:57, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote:
> First off, I've looked at the HCL, I didn't see the T410 listed.
> 
> I'm trying to get 11.2 installed on a Thinkpad T410.  The install goes
> fine until it comes time to reboot after the installation of the
> bootloader.  Once it starts to boot from the hard drive, it scrolls some
> kernel messages too quickly to read (but given the green text on the
> right of the screen, it doesn't appear that there are any failures).
> After scrolling, the screen goes blank and it doesn't proceed any
> further.
> 
> It's not X.org, I've tried clt+alt+fn and ctl+alt+backspace+backspace to
> no avail.  Booting to single user mode, runlevel 3, or using the
> vga=0x367 option doesn't work either.  I tried holding down the space
> bar to encourage a boot (as was a common issue with a previous laptop in
> both Ubuntu and openSUSE) to no avail.

It should be interesting to note at which point it breaks. My guess is that it is the first, initial
boot after installation, which is a run of YaST to complete the configuration of the system, and it
runs in graphical mode. There is a flag file on "/" that triggers it, I think. Removing it should
allow you to complete booting to text mode - but some important things would not be configured.

I think that if you type "confirm" at the initial grub prompt, booting will stop at each step asking
if it runs that step or not. Then you can skip the one that fails.

- -- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith))
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