[opensuse] GRUB Won't Install OS 11.1
I have a new Lenovo G530 laptop that came with Vista in three partitions: 1. Vista Preload 2. Main Vista 3. Lenovo Recovery All are NTFS. I installed 11.1 from DVD shrinking the main Vista partition to make room. On the latest iteration, I have these partitions: sda4 - w95 Extended sda5 - /boot sda6 - / sda7 - swap sda8 - /home Everything runs fine until it tries to install GRUB: Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,3) failed Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,4) failed Running "install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage1 hd(0,3) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst" failed Error 22 I have tried Repair to no avail. I can boot into Rescue mode and manually mount /boot and root and everything is there and looks fine. I found an article on this forum archive that says to uncheck everything but the MBR option but I never see that screen. If I could find my 11.0 DVD I would use that and then upgrade. (I had to do this on an old desktop.) Meanwhile, I suspect this has something to do with trying to write to both sda4 and sda5 but I am NO GRUB guru. Any idea as to what is wrong and how I can recover from it short of finding my 11.0 media? Thank you, Lucky Leavell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2009/06/19 19:55 (GMT-0400) Lucky Leavell composed:
I have a new Lenovo G530 laptop that came with Vista in three partitions:
1. Vista Preload 2. Main Vista 3. Lenovo Recovery
All are NTFS. I installed 11.1 from DVD shrinking the main Vista partition to make room.
Best plan with a Vista machine that never had anything else on it before is to use Vista's built-in partition resizer to shrink first, then boot the Linux install CD and use the space you freed up using Vista. Wierd things often happen if you don't, because alignments in Vista's partitioning scheme are often different from traditional partitioning, "cylinder" multiples of 1G Vista vs. 7.8G traditional. I'd try to restore the original Vista configuration with its recovery system, then shrink Vista using Vista, then try installing 11.1 in the space Vista made available. -- "Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle." Proverbs 23:5 NIV 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
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-06-19 at 19:55 -0400, Lucky Leavell wrote:
I have a new Lenovo G530 laptop that came with Vista in three partitions:
1. Vista Preload 2. Main Vista 3. Lenovo Recovery
All are NTFS. I installed 11.1 from DVD shrinking the main Vista partition to make room. On the latest iteration, I have these partitions:
sda4 - w95 Extended sda5 - /boot sda6 - / sda7 - swap sda8 - /home
Where are you installing grub, MBR or sda4? Both problematic, I think.
Everything runs fine until it tries to install GRUB:
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,3) failed Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,4) failed Running "install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage1 hd(0,3) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst" failed
Error 22
22 : No such partition This error is returned if a partition is requested in the device part of a device- or full file name which isn't on the selected disk. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAko8O1IACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U0wwCfREo8QJ/x3YKNQXeBNn7Zq4so LTcAn2iVLe4Jm0V7yIjGwip5cRQp2i72 =5mlQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Friday, 2009-06-19 at 19:55 -0400, Lucky Leavell wrote:
I have a new Lenovo G530 laptop that came with Vista in three partitions:
1. Vista Preload 2. Main Vista 3. Lenovo Recovery
All are NTFS. I installed 11.1 from DVD shrinking the main Vista partition to make room. On the latest iteration, I have these partitions:
sda4 - w95 Extended sda5 - /boot sda6 - / sda7 - swap sda8 - /home
Where are you installing grub, MBR or sda4? Both problematic, I think.
I always thought the MBR only pointed to /boot but I really never saw the screen where it gave me the choice. sda4 does seem a bit odd since it is a "container" for the extended partitions. BTW, all are ext3. 1. How do I get to where I choose? 2. What should I choose?
Everything runs fine until it tries to install GRUB:
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,3) failed Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,4) failed Running "install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage1 hd(0,3) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst" failed
Error 22
22 : No such partition This error is returned if a partition is requested in the device part of a device- or full file name which isn't on the selected disk.
But what caused this and how do I fix it? I found my 11.0 64-bit DVD and am doing a minimal install now. If that doesn't work I may take Felix' suggestion and restore Vista (SOOO tempting to blow it away!) and use its partitioner to resize Vista. I DO get a warning that sda1 does not end on a cylinder boundry though I resized sda2 with the 11.1 YaST. Thank you Lucky Leavell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R.
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Felix Miata
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Lucky Leavell