[opensuse] 10.2 How to repair installation
Dual boot configuration with WinXP Pro x64. Updated the BIOS for DFI Lanparty UT nf4 Ultra-D mainboard. Windows boots fine, but SUSE 10.2 no longer boots. I've read online about a repair option on the install disk, but booting from DVD I don't see any repair option available. Is there a repair procedure on the DVD and how do you run it? TIA Richard Cromi email: rcromi@neo.rr.com
Hi Richard Last time I used Rescue System which is usually available from a list when you boot from DVD. Cheers Cromi wrote:
Dual boot configuration with WinXP Pro x64. Updated the BIOS for DFI Lanparty UT nf4 Ultra-D mainboard. Windows boots fine, but SUSE 10.2 no longer boots.
I've read online about a repair option on the install disk, but booting from DVD I don't see any repair option available. Is there a repair procedure on the DVD and how do you run it?
TIA
Richard Cromi email: rcromi@neo.rr.com
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On Wed 21 Feb 2007 15:58, Richard Cromi wrote:
Is there a repair procedure on the DVD and how do you run it?
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On 2/21/07, Richard Cromi
Dual boot configuration with WinXP Pro x64. Updated the BIOS for DFI Lanparty UT nf4 Ultra-D mainboard. Windows boots fine, but SUSE 10.2 no longer boots.
I've read online about a repair option on the install disk, but booting from DVD I don't see any repair option available. Is there a repair procedure on the DVD and how do you run it?
TIA
BIOS Flash will not break your install. Most probably some BIOS settings have been changed, making SuSE not to boot. Better of try to boot in "safe" mode, or try to play with ACPI, APM and apic options. Try to boot with acpi=off apm=off noapic nolapic If it succeeds, try to figure out what have been changed. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi Sunny, Yes, there is. Boot from your DVD just like you did when you installed SuSE 10.2 first time. Choose option "new installation" and then in next menu you wil see option "other optons" open it. From there you wil see menu like repair installed system, choose that one and use option automatic repair. It is time consuming if you skip package check, but only you can know is this nessesery. Once you reapaired SuSE 10.2 there is 95% that your boot loader will not recognized your MS-Windows partition, but that is not a problem just open YaST and there you wil find boot loader configuration, go to "Ad" and there you have to give name and partition of your other OS. P.S it is more simple than it sounds, do not worry with repair option you wont loose anything, you accounts + passwords and mails SHELL stay intact. I did this several times. It is one great advanced fiture in SuSE linux. Regards, Zoran On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:35, Sunny Schreef:
On 2/21/07, Richard Cromi
wrote: Dual boot configuration with WinXP Pro x64. Updated the BIOS for DFI Lanparty UT nf4 Ultra-D mainboard. Windows boots fine, but SUSE 10.2 no longer boots.
I've read online about a repair option on the install disk, but booting from DVD I don't see any repair option available. Is there a repair procedure on the DVD and how do you run it?
TIA
BIOS Flash will not break your install. Most probably some BIOS settings have been changed, making SuSE not to boot.
Better of try to boot in "safe" mode, or try to play with ACPI, APM and apic options.
Try to boot with acpi=off apm=off noapic nolapic
If it succeeds, try to figure out what have been changed.
-- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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