I can never install openSUSE

I've tried before, the installer always fails for me. But, I'm getting fed up with Gentoo (finally), so I decided to give it another try. Surely this time would be better...

Boot from the DVD, the progress bar on the green screen gets to around 30% and just sits there. Hard-boot. Try again, press Esc to see log messages. It's hanging on: "braille.4.1 alva read data".

Search opensuse forums and mailing lists...nothing. Search google...nothing.

What the heck? It's not like I have bizarre hardware. I'm just cursed I suppose :P

If anyone knows of a boot option to let the kernel know that I am sighted and therefore don't need braille, PLMK.