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17 Responses to “HOWTO: Solve OpenSUSE 10.2 Installation failure”

1. Dermot Doran on March 10th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

   Another Additional Note:

   I had my first ever complete failure at installing SuSE Linux with openSuSE 10.2. It did not recognize the USB keyboard nor the USB mouse. I was installing on a Dell Optiplex GX-620 and it has no PS/2 connections. I think this is the first time I’ve had a problem since SuSE Linux 5.3.

2. PCDR on April 24th, 2007 at 10:10 pm

   I had the same problem on my DELL GX520 after flashing the BIOS from A05 to A11. Before the flash it would have issues with the DVD burner. Now it simply won’t see the USB mouse and keyboard. It times out and boots to Windows.

3. max on April 26th, 2007 at 6:34 am

   any one know why open suse 10.2 would install and then bring me to a command prompt and ask for a user id and password that it never asked me to enter?how do i login?

4. Aubrey Bourke on May 17th, 2007 at 3:03 am

   In response to the usb keyboard problem:
   try holding down the shift key while rebooting the suse cd/dvd.
   It should give you a text install.

5. Jim Dickin on May 18th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

   I am trying to install Suse 10.1 from DVD onto my new Dell Dimension 9200 (having already installed it on my lap-top without any problems) and am having the same problem – the USB keyboard and mouse are not recognised and I cannot select “Installation”. I have tried Audrey’s suggestion but after two text prompts it reverts back to the installation screen from where I can do nothing. The default value is “Load from hard disk” so I go round in circles.

   Has anybody got round this issue?

   Regrads

   JD

6. Anand on May 23rd, 2007 at 12:09 pm

   I am trying to install suse 10.2 on my P3/866MHZ machine, but it is not configuring my user login and upon reboot, it is asking for user -id and password, which I haven’t yet configured.

   Any one has any help?

   Thanks in Advance

7. swamytk on May 23rd, 2007 at 2:00 pm

   Hi Anand/max,

   If your installation is successful (there should have been some error which might have caused skipping of root password setting), you can follow the following procedure to set right.

   Boot your system to any other Linux installation or Live CD. Change the root file system of that system to openSuse root file system using “chroot” command and change the password. For help refer http://cutecomputer.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/howto-dev-file-system-in-chroot-ed-environment/

8. fxrsliberty on May 30th, 2007 at 12:42 am

   for those with no root password.
   at the boot options screen type 1 this brings you into single user mode at which point you can re-invoke the yast installer
   by typing
   sh /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.Second-Stage
   for those with USB KB+mouse
   as far as I can tell it’s your PC’s bios.
   I have a lot of IBM ‘s that came with USB KB but also had PS2 connectors
   the USB KB works fine.

9. Rex on June 11th, 2007 at 3:21 am

   I avoided this problem by starting the installation in text mode
   instead of having it fail to get the right answer from the video card and forcing text mode.

   On the very first screen in the install, hit F3 (labeled “VESA”) and select “Text Mode”. After the boot at the end of disk 3, it will nicely prompt you for a root password.

10. Arun Theeban on June 21st, 2007 at 11:33 pm

    Rex your suggestion did the trick!. Thanks for suggesting a simple and cleaner way. I think opensuse has to make the text mode option much explicit and visible.

11. Dann on July 28th, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    When I try to install opensuse 10.2, after I press Installation, it goes to a blank screen and stays there. Doing nothing. It won’t install.

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13. nikhil on August 25th, 2007 at 5:01 pm

    I have same problem. when I try to rub Yast2.Second.Stage manually it always run in graphics mode and fails.
    Any way to force it to run in text mode?

14. woinshet on September 6th, 2007 at 12:31 am

    i have a problem with dell gx520 and dell gx720 computer
    on that the all usb port are not work .we download the flus bios but i don’t now the step to solve tanks

15. JC on October 23rd, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    Aubrey wrote: In response to the usb keyboard problem:
    try holding down the shift key while rebooting the suse cd/dvd.
    It should give you a text install.

    Perfect…this is working great!

    Tks!

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17. opensuse 11.0 final version on toshiba laptop on July 13th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

    /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.Second-Stage
    Re-Starting syslog services done
    unicode_start skipped on /dev/pts/1
    /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/Second-Stage/S05-config: line 20: initviocons: command not found
    D-Bus already started. Not starting.
    Starting acpid done
    HAL already started. Not starting.
    NetworkManager already running done
    Please supply a config file

    second stage crashes under my laptop computer on bootup for 11.0
    opensuse , can you report this problem to them, also by default I have to select vesa under xorgconfig in order to get it to display without the nvidia drivers under my laptop model is 205x Satellite Toshiba computer

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