On 2010/06/27 12:36 (GMT+0700) C. Brouerius van Nidek composed:
After some technical problems with my Pentium III mainboard I ran into a booting problem after a mainboard change. The system, 11.2 KDE4.4 worked without hitch before the change, would not work after the exchange. As my DVD/CDrom also did not wanted to read the 11.2 install DVD I had no other choice as to install a new openSUSE via network install. Choose 11.3 RC1 as that version already seem quit stable.
Got it working but I am still not able to repair my 11.2. The information very early after the boot of grub is more or less, could not find /dev/sdb3 fall back at part 3 waiting..... not found cannot set terminal process group, inappropiate ioctl for device.
(this is what I was able to jot down)
I have checked the partition (ext4) with fsck, looked at the partition with Yast but was not able to see anything out of the ordinary. Can somebody give me a solution?
Not without more information. The old Piii mainboard probably was incapable of booting off USB, while the new one almost assuredly can, and has a more sophisticated BIOS to enable it. Most likely the sdb (HD #2 on PATA primary slave) it cannot find is due to different enumeration on the new motherboard (something other than primary slave). You'll have to do something to ensure the boot HD with 11.2 on it is found as sdb in the new motherboard's boot configuration at least until such time as the initrd can be rebuilt to match whatever is the new configuration you've neglected to tell us about, unless you can make it reliably found as sdb for each boot. You should share not only the new hardware configuration, but also the content of /boot/grub/menu.lst, /boot/grub/device.map, /etc/grub.conf & /etc/fstab, plus the output from fdisk -l. -- "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 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org