I am trying to install openSUSE 13.1 on a brand new HP Pavilion 500-301nd system.
After my fight with the BIOS to switch off Secure Boot and to get the CD/DVD reader in the forerfont of the boot devices, I am able to boot from the installation DVD.
It first shows the Welcome screen with the welcome message in several languages and then shows the boot menu with about six or seven items and below the menus you can use with several Fn keys. Nothing wrong IMHO. Choosing installation, the Kernel loading ruler is shown (as always) and then the sscreen switches into character mode until it hangs after the line: Found a Linux console terminal ....
Now that is not realy surprising me. Graphical card. So I bailed out and started anew. First I tried Rescue mode to look what partitioning the manufacturer did. No problem.
Next boot, I get a complete different sequence of screens. Not the Welcome screen, but directly a boot meny. This time it looks very much like the regular openSUSE 13.1 menu, had only three entries (with Gecko heads before them) and no Fn menus below. Boothing from there also shows same openSUSE 13.1: the overlay with "loading initrd" and not the Kernel loading ruler.
Now, I can use e in that menu and add nomodeset, but I do not understand how booting from a DVD (that can not be modified IMHO) can walk different pathes right from the beginning on a system that only powered off and on between the two boots.
BTW after this experience, I tried the DVD on another system and it works there as expected with the Welcome screen, etc.
Anybody any ideas?
After my fight with the BIOS to switch off Secure Boot and to get the CD/DVD reader in the forerfont of the boot devices, I am able to boot from the installation DVD.
It first shows the Welcome screen with the welcome message in several languages and then shows the boot menu with about six or seven items and below the menus you can use with several Fn keys. Nothing wrong IMHO. Choosing installation, the Kernel loading ruler is shown (as always) and then the sscreen switches into character mode until it hangs after the line: Found a Linux console terminal ....
Now that is not realy surprising me. Graphical card. So I bailed out and started anew. First I tried Rescue mode to look what partitioning the manufacturer did. No problem.
Next boot, I get a complete different sequence of screens. Not the Welcome screen, but directly a boot meny. This time it looks very much like the regular openSUSE 13.1 menu, had only three entries (with Gecko heads before them) and no Fn menus below. Boothing from there also shows same openSUSE 13.1: the overlay with "loading initrd" and not the Kernel loading ruler.
Now, I can use e in that menu and add nomodeset, but I do not understand how booting from a DVD (that can not be modified IMHO) can walk different pathes right from the beginning on a system that only powered off and on between the two boots.
BTW after this experience, I tried the DVD on another system and it works there as expected with the Welcome screen, etc.
Anybody any ideas?