Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008 schrieb Peter Czanik:
> Hello,
>
> Just tested the RC2 DVD (I work for a Novell partner) on a Core2Duo
> machine. I guess, I should have tested it earlier and not concentrate
> strictly on PPC...
>
> - installation from images (which is the default setting) has serious
> troubles: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456337
I'll look into the bug.
> For the rest I don't have now time to bugzilla, maybe in the evening...
>
> - nvidia binary drivers installed, 3D works fine, but Compiz can't be
> enabled on KDE4 (Desktop settings says, that Composite and Damage
> extensions are missing, which is true, as Composite is disabled in the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf generated by sax2)
>
> - the machine reboots while coming back from hibernation (Intel G965
> chipset, nVidia binary driver was not yet enabled, when tested). This
> led to a broken file system and a broken KDE4 desktop (only the START
> menu stayed in place, the rest moved or disappeared)
>
> - I installed to an extended partition (/dev/sda5). The default boot
sda5 is usually a logical and not an extended partition.

> manager configuration is broken, as grub is only installed to an
> extended partition. This results in an unbootable system. It works fine
> when MBR is also used.

From http://en.opensuse.org/Bootloader/Scenarios
Loader itself can be installed to one (or more) of following 
 master boot record of the primary disk 
 boot sector of primary partition on primary disk holding one of ext2 or ext3

/dev/sda5 does not fit these requirements.

Greetings, Stephan

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