Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (193 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 02:32 schrieb Kevin R. Garand:
> I installed OpenSuSe 10.1 beta with all the updates on a Dell
> Optiplex, with Windows XP on the first partition.  Basically Windows
> was installed first, and then on the free space Open SuSE was
> installed.  Now during reboot, I get just the Dell POST screen, it
> goes black, and then the Dell POST screen again, and this would go on
> forever if I let it.  

Does this mean you have a "reboot loop"?
If yes: I had this in one of the early 10.0 betas, but it worked in the 
later ones and in final also.

Maybe you have more luck with using lilo ;-)

To change to lilo (and to verify it is really a bootloader problem):
Boot from install CD, somewhere after the license, click the "other" 
button and change "boot installed system". Mount your harddisk to /mnt.

If everything worked up to now, you have verified that it is a 
bootloader problem.

Now   chroot /mnt   and call   yast2 bootloader   (maybe you need to 
install the lilo RPM before doing this).

And please report this bug - see http://bugs.opensuse.org
In this case, I'd recommend to append the YaST2 logs - see 
http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST for information about 
how to get them.

BTW: If you already have a login for opensuse.org or any Novell site, 
you can use it for bugzilla also.


Regards,

Christian Boltz

PS: The grub configuration posted by Joseph looks broken to me ;-)
    Here's my working configuration in 10.0 [1] - of course you need to 
    change it to your partitioning:

--- /boot/grub/menu.lst ---
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 10.0
    root (hd0,4)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x342 selinux=0 
                         resume=/dev/hda2 splash=silent  showopts
# everything from kernel to showopts is _one_ line!
    initrd /boot/initrd


PPS: From your other mail:
     > Again, I may have been wrong for posting this here,

    You are perfectly right here :-)  - this list is for discussing 
    alpha and beta versions. However, if you find something that is
    obviously a bug, you can go to bugzilla directly.


[1] grub of 10.1 beta1 only shows the  grub>  prompt (bug #144688), but 
    that seems to be a different bug ;-)

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