I’m trying to apply SP3 to one of my SLES12 boxes, and it’s being difficult.
I’m booting off of the SLES 12 SP3 DVD1, and it makes it as far as trying to connect to the virtual terminal, but then goes to a black screen with a non-blinking gray cursor, where it sits indefinitely.
This is a VM on VMWare ESXi 6, with three vCPUs and 8GB of memory. The host is an HP DL380 G9 with 40 Xeon E5-2698 cores and 512GB of memory.
Just as a test, I tried booting off of the SP2 DVD, and it did the same thing.
It’s as if the VM just completely hangs, because if I release the mouse cursor, it won’t recapture it.
I know that this has worked in the past, because I installed a new VM on the box just a couple of months ago.
Is there anything that I can do to make it complete the loading of the installer, or any way to tell why it’s freezing?
I’m trying to apply SP3 to one of my SLES12 boxes, and it’s being
difficult.
I’m booting off of the SLES 12 SP3 DVD1, and it makes it as far as
trying to ‘connect to the virtual terminal,’
(http://susepaste.org/20369833) but then goes to a black screen with a
non-blinking gray cursor, where it sits indefinitely.
This is a VM on VMWare ESXi 6, with three vCPUs and 8GB of memory. The
host is an HP DL380 G9 with 40 Xeon E5-2698 cores and 512GB of memory.
Just as a test, I tried booting off of the SP2 DVD, and it did the same
thing.
It’s as if the VM just completely hangs, because if I release the mouse
cursor, it won’t recapture it.
I know that this has worked in the past, because I installed a new VM on
the box just a couple of months ago.
Is there anything that I can do to make it complete the loading of the
installer, or any way to tell why it’s freezing?[/color]
From the above it sounds like you’re using physical media. Is this
a correct interpretation?
Normally for odd issues I would suggest checking your media, or
the downloaded ISO from which it was created, is not corrupted
but since you’re saying two DVDs are acting weird that makes me
suspect the drive rather than media. Unless of course both DVDs
were created using the same writer … ?
HTH.
Simon Flood
SUSE Knowledge Partner
(Posting from SUSECON 2017)
[QUOTE=smily_03;39674]Sorry for the confusion – these are indeed ISOs, not physical media.
Running a “media check” on the ISO comes back with “no errors found.”
I tried the installation with the nomodeset boot option, and that seems to have helped, I’m at least at a graphical install screen now
I’ll run through the process and see how it goes – out of curiosity, any idea why this would have broken? (Is it considered broken?)[/QUOTE]
Hi
Graphics stack changes, then might be the gpu driver module not in the iso image initrd. See how it goes after the install.
