On Monday 29 October 2007 05:50:04 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
The new DVD disk did run, and I was able to start the installation.
Nevertheless, things have not run smoothly. There were some problems with packages that could not be updated, but I will leave them aside for the moment, because there is a much more serious problem.
When the first reboot happened, I left the DVD in the drive, which I am sure is correct. After the reboot, what came up was the installers main screen, offering the choice of booting from the Hard Disk, Installation, etc. Choosing "Installation" brings me back to the beginning of the upgrade process (language, accept the conditions, etc.), which I do not think is where I want to be. In other words, I appear to have lost the thread of the upgrade process. I hope someone will explain to me why this has happened, and what I can do about it.
It should go trough 'boot from hard disk' option, but something went bad with grub installation, so it will end on the same spot.
Removing the DVD and rebooting causes a black screen to come up, with a prompt like "grub >". In other words, the upgrade process has decided on its own initiative to install GRUB in the Master Boot Sector. This is dirty pool: When I first installed v10..2, I put GRUB into a very small partition all by itself; I did this for a very good reason, and I was allowed to do it, and there is something very wrong with the upgrader/installer moving it about in this way without asking me.
Grub should be installed in boot sector of openSUSE partition, and MBR has only generic boot loader, the same kind that was installed with 10.2 that will load partition marked as active (bootable). So all that you have to do to use fdisk and change active flag to your previous boot partition, but then I can assume that partiton was not changed and grub configuration has to be fixed. File device.map has to point to /dev/sdX instead of /dev/hdX, and the same change has to be done in menu.lst file. Kernels have to be copied from root partition /boot directory to your boot partition. I hope that this will be the end of major problems, but as it probably mentioned somewhere clean install is much safer bet.
I'll fix this, but it should not have happened.
Felix comment on versions is the very base of the problem, but SUSE has used this way for quite some time. The x.3 was introduction to cleaner (x+1).0, and actually last stable 10 was 10.2, as well as it was with any x.2 before. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org