Title about covers it.

I wanted to try the SUSE way. Pulled the files, verified, burned slowly. Installed, looked fine. Reboot. Hangs up black screen, ESC gets a view of the stalled logging where something kicks it all out of gear.

No comprende.

Try reinstalling, works great for two steps, bogs down at "probing hard disks 40%" every time.

Recovery boot, fails. Reinstallation fails, nothing obvious in the paperwork/postings I've found yet. Stuck until I format or repartition the drive or INSTALL something entirely different I reckon.

I'm likely moving on to something else. Might try on another machine later, but not really interested in a one-machine pony in my current situation. Thanks for any pointers/solutions here but I'm not in any rush.

Phooey, done fighting that one.

I'm no stranger to multiple attempts to install an OS properly (Slack has the record at 6) and now 2 or 4 doesn't bother me one bit. Gives me plenty of time to read the documentation (which I'm finding better with smaller distros). But can't even do that with SUSE now-- without using separate partition tools.

Reworking that box with MX now. Extended testing begins. I'll hop around some more next Winter. Thanks for all your support.

As you not used SUSE for a few years, best first install openSUSE 42.3 rather than Tumbleweed, as Tumblweed is for exploring alternatives.

Once used 42.3 so familiar again with how it works then try also to install Tumbleweed in seperate partition.

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Thanks for your input. Someone will likely benefit. I think I tried the stable edition previously (these last few weeks). Am no longer interested in AnySUSE, have moved right on down the line. Life's too short to keep beating myself in the head with an OS that refuses to install.

I'll beat my head against other more nebulous and obscure difficulties. Fosho

For benefit of others, usually am not short of HD space, earlier BTRFS used a lot of available space (since then it has used less), then took to using ~50 GB for root partition / with openSUSE, and separate /home partition.

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