Bug 541396 - 11.2 Milestone 7 won't run on AMD x86_64
Summary: 11.2 Milestone 7 won't run on AMD x86_64
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: openSUSE 11.2
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Version: Milestone 7
Hardware: x86-64 Other
: P5 - None : Normal with 5 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2009-09-23 13:39 UTC by Rae Stiening
Modified: 2009-10-27 12:51 UTC (History)
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Found By: Beta-Customer
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Description Rae Stiening 2009-09-23 13:39:17 UTC 
System does not successfully complete boot after installation. Multiple errors reporting inability to create files during boot. KDE desktop version of install was used. Does not get as far as a console only root logon. This is new with Milestone 7.
Comment 1 Forgotten User eDStDj8Y1e 2009-10-18 21:03:44 UTC 
Using CR1. 

ISO burned to DVD. Boot from DVD and expected splash screen is given. Finally selection to boot from hard drive... If ANY option is taken besides boot from hard drive (I didn't test this one), the load fails.

This failure is seen by the screen not only going dark, but in my case, the status light to the LCD unit shows loss of signal. IF you select TEXT for the display, a series of modules being loaded shows, and then the whole thing hangs (last 2 modules listed: 
[   0.184001]  [<ffffffff819d80b0>] kernel_init+0x102/0x15c
[   0.184001]  [<ffffffff8100d6ca>] child_rip+0xa/0x20.)

So using a 11.1 64bit install DVD, here is the hardware config:
2x AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4200+
896MB Ram
ATI RS690 (Radeon X1200 Series)
ATI SB600 IDE
ATI SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
Dual 500GB SATA drives (with /home being RAID1)

Reason for testing this, problems found with 11.0-1 in the set up of RAID1 while doing install. Seems that GRUB is not correctly configured. As you can see, I didn't get that far this time.
Comment 2 Forgotten User eDStDj8Y1e 2009-10-18 21:23:37 UTC 
Something occurred to me just as I clicked <commit>. I tried with ACPI disabled and text mode, and sure enough, I am in the text mode of the install, doing an install repair (because 11.1's GRUB got twisted somehow).

So a reboot and ACPI only disabled and the full graphics system ran just fine for an upgrade (from 11.1 64 bit).

This is interesting in that *All* SuSE installs (32 or 64 from 10.2 to 11.1) along with a few other distros have worked on this system without having to disable anything. Interesting.
Comment 3 Thomas Renninger 2009-10-27 12:51:44 UTC 
My ATI graphics also did not work with Milestone8 (simply dark screen with radeonhd driver). But I can confirm that this got fixed for my X1600 card with RC1 build. Looks like a simple bug slipped in which got fixed meanwhile.

Do I interpret comment #2 correctly and the bug got fixed for you also?
-> Closing, please reopen if you still have the same problem on RC1.