Clayton wrote:
I've been puzzling over this one for a while now.... not quite sure how or why openSUSE is seeing my hard drives in a different order than the BIOS and the physical connections are laid out.
...
Don't fight what you can't control. Mount volumes by UID or volume label and move on to the next problem.
:-) Normally, this is not a concern, and mount by UID works perfectly... well... it still works fine in this case too, but I stumbled on a minor hiccup so to speak that could possibly trip up new users... and old timers too.
I installed a new drive.
[pruned]
So.... this is what lead me to start poking at the drives, the physical order vs the order Linux sees them... and trying to find the "easy" way around this. In the end I want a single GRUB with all installed OSes. I can probably get there myself, but...
It used to be you had to have the right info in the MBR of the first drive to be able to boot your OS. Is this still the case? If ti is... which drive is the first drive now? If I shuffle the physical connections, things still boot up... so I'm a bit puzzled. :-P
C.
This may or may not contribute to resolve your puzzlement..... I try and replace my HDs (as a 'matched' pair) every couple of years. A couple of months ago I bought 2 Seagate 160GB IDE drives in case my current HDs (Maxtors) started to show signs of developing bad sectors. I have tried many times (I've lost count of the number!) to install oS 11.1 on those HDs (I normally install the OS on one HD and use the second HD to be mounted as /data for backups etc.). (Oh, I also noticed, as in your case, that the order of the HDs is not [always] as I have them on the controller.) Reversing the order of the HDs during the installation produces the same result: failure! However, let me qualify. I can actually INSTALL oS 11.1 but when it comes to the stage where one has to do the initial boot from the HD to continue with the installation, GRUB collapses with 1 of 3 messages - the one I can remember at the moment is error 21 (I think :-( . Another may be 17). Booting from the DVD into the Repair mode comes up with the error message, when I 'ask it' to boot into an existing system, that there is no (Linux) operating system found; if the attempt to recreate GRUB is made the error message states there is no root directory on the HD. Yet openSUSE 11.1 actually installed from the DVD! Strangely though, I can install Kubuntu 9.04 and it not only installs but also boots from the HD - *ALBEIT* it may take a couple of attempts at booting from the HD (after I respond "Yes" to a Grub error message re whether I want to retry to boot from the HD following which Kubuntu then boots correctly). No such joy with oS though :-( . But now that I have a bootable CD of the GNOME version of 11.2 MS6 I will try it out in the next few days on these Seagate HDs. This situation has never happened to me with any make of HD. Is there something in the latest HDs which cannot be handled by the BIOS which, in my case, is some 5 years old? Or is it that the latest kernels are not capable of handling older BIOSes? Anyway, I 've given up trying to install 11.1 on these new HDs of mine and will try again with 11.2 in the near future. BC -- Insanity is only a state of mind. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org