On 2012-10-31 23:53 (GMT+0100) Oddball composed:
Felix Miata composed:
All CLI interfaces I'm familiar with have a prompt of some sort. Do you have any prompt on that screen? Grub Legacy's is grub>. Root's bash shell ends in #. Other's bash shell ends with $. If you have no prompt, you have no CLI, just a useless screen implying no instructions to proceed further.
Yes, i know, it sounds stupid. But it is very limited. It says grub> _ the only thing it can answer is: error: can't find command, error: filename expected.
That's one of the "lovely" things the Grub overhaul gave us. "Find" on Grub Legacy was inexplicably replaced by "search" in Grub 2.
It has a very limited input size, kernelname and number do not fit. Just behind the bios, nothing is loaded yet.
But if you can supply me with the proper comands, i will try what can be done with this prompt.
Here there's no such limitation, but this is the only Grub 2 prompt I have, on Kubuntu. So I don't know if on openSUSE there may be some difference.
sda3 /boot Kernel: Linux 3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop i686
Forget about both find and search. If sda3 is correct, you don't need to bother. If /boot is on LVM, I can't help, other than to suggest a fresh install to get around your mountain of 12.2 problems. If it's a separate boot partition rather than a /boot directory on your / partition, this will probably do it: grub> linux (hd0,msdos3)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 noresume 3 grub> initrd (hd0,msdos3)/initrd grub> boot If /boot is part of / on a normal partition rather than LVM, then: grub> linux (hd0,msdos3)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 noresume 3 grub> initrd (hd0,msdos3)/boot/initrd grub> boot Note the above wouldn't work with Grub Legacy. Instead: If it's a separate boot partition rather than a /boot directory on your / partition, this will probably do it: grub> kernel (hd0,2)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 noresume 3 grub> initrd (hd0,2)/initrd grub> boot If /boot is part of / on a normal partition rather than LVM, then: grub> kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 noresume 3 grub> initrd (hd0,2/boot/initrd grub> boot
The other thing is a mistake i made: i never use lvm. This time i thought ok, lets try it. Lvm is not supported yet in Knoppix, so the partitions could not get mounted, only windows and /boot were visible.
If /boot is its own separate partition for booting LVM /, then lack of LVM support in Knoppix doesn't matter. More importantly, to "install" Grub Legacy, no mounting of anything is necessary. http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/grub/grub_3.html#SEC9 completely covers it. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org