Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
18.04.2017 19:19, L A Walsh пишет:
Installer defaults to whatever disk label is in use currently.
--- That's why I was trying the repair disk -- (since I couldn't figure out how to change the label in the installer-DVD).
Did you try to press F3? yes -- didn't understand the menu until you told me to retry it...saw: ===================== Installer Size ⏵ Text Console Size ⏵ Video BIOS Size ⏵
Text mode Color Mode ⏵ Screen Reader ⏵ ===================== I thought 'text mode' was a sub-header (tried txt console size, but it gave size in pixels, not characters), looked at video bios size -- it did the same thing (size in pixels) -- I would have thought a BIOS would be sized in MB. Tried color mode as well -- didn't think to try selecting text mode ... maybe if the above had ◯ Text mode (and) ● Text mode ... i.e. showing the user there is a toggle-option there? After not finding how to toggle text mode, I hit ESC, and that put me in text mode. I tried booting from there -- and that's where it went back to the GUI.
Select disk in expert partitioner, on the lower right you have some advanced actions drop down list (called Expert). It allows you to rewrite disk label.
---- I'm not seeing that -- see Hard Disk (on left under system view) and see sda. Only option I see is '[Configure...v]' -- if I TAB over to the right size over the hard disk (/dev/sda), I still only see configure. Pressing configure (in both cases) gives me: Provide Crypt Passwords... Configure iSCSI... Configure FCoE... Configure Multipath... But no option to change partition type.... Ah!....Found it! Need to select on /dev/sda1 not just hilite it... (used to GUI's where hiliting an option shows sub-options for that option) -- more like a web-interface and using '1-click' for starting things (and hovering to hilight them). Thanks!
I run parted? Maybe I should boot the rescue disk and try initializing the disk w/gpt first?
Yes, you can.
....booting rescue.. why does sysd complain about missing groups: tty, kmem, video, audio, disk, cdrom
then fail to generate issue-generator fail issue-generator network add enp0s17 -- no such file or directory fail issue-generator network dd enp0s8 -- no such file or directory
--- seems sysd doesn't know how to start a rescue system -- though since a rescue system is supposed to start from a shell, how do I boot to a shell?
I have no idea what you are doing or what your are using. When I select rescue system from installation medium it boots into text mode shell.
---- I booted from the separate rescue CD.
adding init=/bin/sh => ignored.
I doubt installation medum even has /bin/sh until installer is loaded and mounted all necessary parts.
---- But being able to provide an option to boot to shell instead of "init" or (in this case) "systemd", was a failsafe option...
It starts a gui desktop. Why can't I get to a terminal from here? I try pressing ALT-F1 to get to the 1st console, but its ignored, and alt-f2 gets brings up an application finder.
This has been the case in X11 GUI since ever.
---- ??? When I'm at the console, if I start a GUI, I can press ALT-F1 to get one of the alternate consoles -- usually graphics was on tty7 (alt-f7), w/text mode tty1-6 available via alt-f{1..6}. This was the case prior to sysd. Well, how to start text mode & find partitioner seems solved -- the rest was stuff from a rescue disk, so I can see the confusion, so nevermind on that... ;-) Thanks again!.. Linda W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org