[opensuse] Unsuccessful installation of operating system
My desktop system has been running oS v11.1, which is installed on one of the two hard disks. The other HD contains an older oS release which I wish to replace with oS v11.3. This alternation is the way I have been upgrading the software for several years. Each installed system has a SWAP partition in sdX5, a / partition in sdX6, and /home in sdX7. (All the partitions are logical; the only primary partition is an IBM Boot Manager In each of the two installed systems, GRUB is located in the / partition. When I tried to install oS v11.3, the process failed when it should have done the first repeat. That is, the installer announced a reboot, but nothing actually happened. Booting the system goes as follows: IBM Boot Manager comes up with its menu offering me the two systems (only one of which is actually installed). I choose one, the appropriate openSuSE boot manager appears for about a second, followed by the following on a black screen: ***** root (hd1,5) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition tiype 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.48-0.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- Hitachi_HDP725025GLA380_GEK264RS01U4JA-part6 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- HDS728080PLA380_PFDB37ELRUB49E-part5 splash=silent vga=0x31a Error 15: File not found ***** The above is for one of the boot choices; the other differs only by the HD numbers. (For those familiar with DFSee, I have generated the DFSDISK analysis files for the system, and have sent them for analysis to DFSee Support a couple of weeks ago, but have received no response, no doubt because the developer is on vacation. Any helpful insight about getting past this hurdle, and either finishing/reinstalling 11.3 or at least gaining access to the v11.1 installation, would be enormously appreciated. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Booting the system goes as follows:
IBM Boot Manager comes up with its menu offering me the two systems (only one of which is actually installed). I choose one, the appropriate openSuSE boot manager appears for about a second, followed by the following on a black screen:
***** root (hd1,5) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition tiype 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.48-0.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- Hitachi_HDP725025GLA380_GEK264RS01U4JA-part6 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- HDS728080PLA380_PFDB37ELRUB49E-part5 splash=silent vga=0x31a
Error 15: File not found ***** (...) Any helpful insight about getting past this hurdle, and either finishing/reinstalling 11.3 or at least gaining access to the v11.1 installation, would be enormously appreciated. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel
I'm not sure I can really help, it's been ages since I used the IBM Boot Manager (back in OS/2 Warp's time). All I know is that I never managed to get 11.3 to install GRUB on the root partition. Although I choose this option, the installer allways installs GRUB in the MBR and ovewrites my previous GRUB. Now I don't know how that works with the Boot Manager (and I don't see why you can't boot 11.1, except if the install screwed the IBM Boot Manager). I also don't see the interrest to use the Boot Manager if you only boot Linux, GRUB seems to do the job, but that's only my point of view. I could suggest that you download the "Super GRUb Disk". Its a bootable GRUB CD that lets you boot an installed system, so you should be able to boot 11.1. From there you could reinstall GRUB in /, assuming the Boot Manager still works OK. Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday, 2010-09-22 at 21:32 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote: ...
IBM Boot Manager comes up with its menu offering me the two systems (only one of which is actually installed). I choose one, the appropriate openSuSE boot manager appears for about a second, followed by the following on a black screen:
It is a grub error.
***** root (hd1,5) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition tiype 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.48-0.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- Hitachi_HDP725025GLA380_GEK264RS01U4JA-part6 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- HDS728080PLA380_PFDB37ELRUB49E-part5 splash=silent vga=0x31a
Error 15: File not found *****
15 : File not found This error is returned if the specified file name cannot be found, but everything else (like the disk/partition info) is OK. Probably there is an error in the menu.lst file. -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
15 : File not found This error is returned if the specified file name cannot be found, but everything else (like the disk/partition info) is OK.
Probably there is an error in the menu.lst file.
Reaching the grub menu only to get an error like this means there is some type of error which usually can be worked around by using the Grub command shell. When the menu appears, escape out of the graphical menu first, then exit the text menu to reach the command prompt in the manner shown to you below the entries the text menu is showing. You'll then be greeted by a Grub prompt: grub> Try the following: grub> root (hd1,5) grub> kernel /boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sdb6 noresume splash=verbose vga=791 grub> initrd /boot/initrd grub> boot If that doesn't get you booted, try substituting from your best recollection whatever is correct for the various (xx#,#) parameters and kernel parameters. If still no go, you can get clues via Grub's command line completion, allowing it to show you what kernel and/or initrd(s) it can find. Start thus: grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 which will show whatever locations it can find it, which will be locations where menu.lst should be, and which should be the child of any /boot containing installed kernels and initrds. Maybe the HD on which SUSE is actually located for some reason is not coming up as sdb6/(hd1,5). If stage 1 is where you expect it, try: grub> kernel /boot/vmli<tab> and report back what happens if from the above you can't get any SUSE booted. -- "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
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 23:25:33 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Wednesday, 2010-09-22 at 21:32 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
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IBM Boot Manager comes up with its menu offering me the two systems (only one of which is actually installed). I choose one, the appropriate openSuSE boot manager appears for about a second, followed by the following on a black screen:
It is a grub error.
That seemed to me to be the case, and I'm glad you confirm it. But I am mystified because I get similar behavior regardless of which Boot Manager selection I make, in other words which GRUB the boot manager selects.
***** root (hd1,5) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition tiype 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.48-0.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- Hitachi_HDP725025GLA380_GEK264RS01U4JA-part6 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- HDS728080PLA380_PFDB37ELRUB49E-part5 splash=silent vga=0x31a
Error 15: File not found *****
15 : File not found This error is returned if the specified file name cannot be found, but everything else (like the disk/partition info) is OK.
The partitions were made with DFSee, and I can see with DFSee that they are in order.
Probably there is an error in the menu.lst file.
This would be at the beginning of the respective root partitions? So I could find it using a live OS? Do you know where I might find information about the content of menu.lst? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday, 2010-09-23 at 00:44 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 23:25:33 Carlos E. R. wrote:
15 : File not found This error is returned if the specified file name cannot be found, but everything else (like the disk/partition info) is OK.
The partitions were made with DFSee, and I can see with DFSee that they are in order.
If linux thinks the partitions are correct, then I have no complain.
Probably there is an error in the menu.lst file.
This would be at the beginning of the respective root partitions? So I could find it using a live OS?
It is a normal file in /boot/grub/
Do you know where I might find information about the content of menu.lst?
Any linux documentation. Opensuse wiki. Grub web page. Grub manual. Opensuse book. -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
My desktop system has been running oS v11.1, which is installed on one of the two hard disks. The other HD contains an older oS release which I wish to replace with oS v11.3. This alternation is the way I have been upgrading the software for several years.
Each installed system has a SWAP partition in sdX5, a / partition in sdX6, and /home in sdX7. (All the partitions are logical; the only primary partition is an IBM Boot Manager
In each of the two installed systems, GRUB is located in the / partition.
When I tried to install oS v11.3, the process failed when it should have done the first repeat. That is, the installer announced a reboot, but nothing actually happened.
Booting the system goes as follows:
IBM Boot Manager comes up with its menu offering me the two systems (only one of which is actually installed). I choose one, the appropriate openSuSE boot manager appears for about a second, followed by the following on a black screen:
***** root (hd1,5) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition tiype 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.48-0.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- Hitachi_HDP725025GLA380_GEK264RS01U4JA-part6 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- HDS728080PLA380_PFDB37ELRUB49E-part5 splash=silent vga=0x31a
Error 15: File not found *****
The above is for one of the boot choices; the other differs only by the HD numbers.
(For those familiar with DFSee, I have generated the DFSDISK analysis files for the system, and have sent them for analysis to DFSee Support a couple of weeks ago, but have received no response, no doubt because the developer is on vacation.
Any helpful insight about getting past this hurdle, and either finishing/reinstalling 11.3 or at least gaining access to the v11.1 installation, would be enormously appreciated.
What happens if you choose the other boot menu entry? Can you get to a grub menu? Did you install 11.3 from DVD? Or do you have a linux Live-CD? And, a point of clarification: While the grub files are in the root partition, a logical, the grub bootstrap code is not. That is, grub will have either been installed to the MBR (but probably not, given that the IBM Boot Manager is working, i.e., the IBM code is in the MBR) or to a primary partition boot sector. You have two, not one, primaries: The first, where the IBM Boot Manager lives. The second is the extended primary inside of which the logicals live. My guess is that grub was installed to the extended primary's boot sector with a pointer to sdb6. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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