Unable to install Open Suse 12.1 in Dell Inspiron 1525
 

I recently got the disc of Open SUSE 12.1 and when I was trying to install it on my Dell Inspiron 1525 I was unable to do it.When I clicked Installation option then It showed Installing Linux Kernel and after that there was a blank screen and it stopped at that only.
:-(

Could you give us a quick overall of the hardware of your system?

[Invincible@Ashish ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5800 @ 2.00GHz
stepping : 13
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts
bogomips : 3990.23
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5800 @ 2.00GHz
stepping : 13
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts
bogomips : 3989.80
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

That's only your CPU....

This is memory information

[Invincible@Ashish ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 2052380 kB
MemFree: 633328 kB
Buffers: 78524 kB
Cached: 718248 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 732904 kB
Inactive: 577544 kB
Active(anon): 519628 kB
Inactive(anon): 198880 kB
Active(file): 213276 kB
Inactive(file): 378664 kB
Unevictable: 48 kB
Mlocked: 48 kB
HighTotal: 1180092 kB
HighFree: 19572 kB
LowTotal: 872288 kB
LowFree: 613756 kB
SwapTotal: 4194300 kB
SwapFree: 4194300 kB
Dirty: 60 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 513840 kB
Mapped: 142036 kB
Shmem: 204840 kB
Slab: 49716 kB
SReclaimable: 33088 kB
SUnreclaim: 16628 kB
KernelStack: 3400 kB
PageTables: 16892 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 5220488 kB
Committed_AS: 2610280 kB
VmallocTotal: 122880 kB
VmallocUsed: 38200 kB
VmallocChunk: 79120 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 133120 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
DirectMap4k: 12280 kB
DirectMap2M: 894976 kB

Could you please attach also an output of `lspci` ?

Also there are guides for version 11.3, maybe you can have a look on some of the common issues :
HCL: Dell_laptops - openSUSE
OpenSUSE 11.3 on a Dell Inspiron 1525

[Invincible@Ashish ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
02:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
02:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
02:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

The thing is that I installed open SUSE 12.1 on my friends laptop few hours ago..and there was no problem in installing it at all..I am just clueless that why its happening to my laptop only..

I'd verify my download the the opensuse iso. Then I'd burn the image on a good quality or best quality cd/dvd and at the very slowest speed. It is best if you burn the disk on the drive you want to boot from also.

Booting to anther system doesn't prove this system is reading the disk correctly.

Did you ever have any linux on this unit before?

Be sure to have more than 1G ram to install from gui.