After reading a lot and spending days on documentation and forums, I decided I need some more specific help.
I'm trying to install openSUSE 13.1 to my mid-2007 bought Macbook Pro 3,1 Core 2 Duo laptop.
After trying the 64-bit version, which caused a lot of graphical glitches, flickering text-mode installers and other problems, it failed to boot after installation, stating the following error: "i8042: No controller found". I figured this must be my Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT graphics card, so I went and downloaded the 32-bit Gnome Live-CD.
It booted perfectly, no more issues with "Select CD-rom boot type" because of EFI/BIOS conflicts and a beautiful graphical installer. Followed through the steps and made sure GRUB2 was installed to the /root partition (sda4, with sda3 being a 3Gb swap partition and sda5 my /home partition).
After rebooting without CD (selecting 'boot from hard disk' from the CD bootloader) a perfectly operational openSUSE started, with all the function keys for sound, light as well as wifi working out of the box.
However, when about to continue exploring my new system today, it suddenly failed to boot, stating the error: "problem loading operating system".
I'm completely stumped here. It's my first time using Linux, so I don't even know where to start looking for clues. Any help would be fantastic,
All the best,
Ben
I'm trying to install openSUSE 13.1 to my mid-2007 bought Macbook Pro 3,1 Core 2 Duo laptop.
After trying the 64-bit version, which caused a lot of graphical glitches, flickering text-mode installers and other problems, it failed to boot after installation, stating the following error: "i8042: No controller found". I figured this must be my Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT graphics card, so I went and downloaded the 32-bit Gnome Live-CD.
It booted perfectly, no more issues with "Select CD-rom boot type" because of EFI/BIOS conflicts and a beautiful graphical installer. Followed through the steps and made sure GRUB2 was installed to the /root partition (sda4, with sda3 being a 3Gb swap partition and sda5 my /home partition).
After rebooting without CD (selecting 'boot from hard disk' from the CD bootloader) a perfectly operational openSUSE started, with all the function keys for sound, light as well as wifi working out of the box.
However, when about to continue exploring my new system today, it suddenly failed to boot, stating the error: "problem loading operating system".
I'm completely stumped here. It's my first time using Linux, so I don't even know where to start looking for clues. Any help would be fantastic,
All the best,
Ben