Suse 10.3 Hangs On Install

[Scaleo-P]

Hi. this problem has been bugging me for a while now, first of all i'm a NOOB. Ok my problem is that i cannot install any distro of linux on my laptop, when i click on installation the screen just goes black and nothing happens. I've tried all distros including the X64. My computer specs are as follows:

Amd Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor TK-55
Had Vista but got rid of it and upgraded to XP (lol)
2GB Ram
120GB Hard Drive
NVidia Integrated Graphics (256mb)

Don't think the rest is important (screen size, modem etc.)

The distro i want to install is Suse 10.3 but as ive said ive tried most.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated

Thank you.

[bobescalin2005]

hmmm....try a livecd distro, see if that it`s work. You can try knoppix,slax etc...
Cheers!

[Scaleo-P]

ok will do but i doubt it will work,
anyway thanks.

[devils casper]

Its a Graphics Card problem only. Installer isn't configuring your card correctly. Have you tried Text Installation?

[Scaleo-P]

I'll try that now and see what happens, hope it works.

And of course it didnt work.

Im lost.

[Scaleo-P]

Ok i've tried, Ubuntu 7.04, Mandriva, Suse 10.2 + 10.3, Sabayon and something else (lol) all do the same thing, i boot from cd it loads the start screen i choose any install method, it says LOADING KERNAL, drive spins up, then after a few seconds it slows down and nothing happens no matter how long i wait. Any other ideas please?

[devils casper]

Try Ubuntu Alternate Installation CD. It has Text based installer and works fine with every machine. Its easy to fix Graphics Problem after installation.

[Scaleo-P]

Ok im getting that now, hope it sorts this out, its been annoying me for ages, i can install almost all distros on my pc and my gf's laptop but not my own.

I'm getting the "hardy-alternate-amd64" version. hope thats the right one.

thanks again.

[Scaleo-P]

Ok still not working, it loads the kernel like before cd spins up then stops like before, only this time it says at the bottom...

KERNEL ALIVE

KERNEL DIRECT MAPPING TABLES UP TO 100000000 @ 8000-d000

whatever the hell that means (lol)

i think ill just give up if i cant find a solution soon.

[Jonathan183]

I had a similar problem on SUSE with an old desktop PC ... I managed to get OpenSUSE installed using the DVD - the live CD would not work. The system seemed to hang but after a while ... about 15 or 20 minutes it came back with a message about a module not loading (for the motherboard on my system) and I had to use the broken module option during install.

If you have the OpenSUSE DVD I would give that a try and see if it comes back with any error messages after about 20 minutes.

Someone else on the forums was also struggling with Xubuntu ... the alternate CD did not work for that system and he could not get the installer to load. The alternate CD will work in most but not all instances. There are a few boot options you can try with the CD which you should be able to list ... I think its F1 for help and F6 for boot options.

Have you got the live CD of SUSE or Ubuntu to work on your PC at all ... forget about the install ... will either boot to a GUI?