Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Paul Abrahams <abrahams@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 5:58 am, Sven Burmeister wrote:

>
> Am Samstag, 16. September 2006 05:51 schrieb Paul Abrahams:
> > I had a newly installed but working 10.0 system when the above error
> > appeared after a reboot.  I've tried reinstalling Grub via Yast, but the
> > installation doesn't seem to take -- I get the same error again.   Oddly,
> > after one of my attempts I did get a working system, but the error came
> > back on the next reboot.
>
> I am not sure if it was the same error, but I had the problem that the
> harddrive Linux was on was not set in the BIOS. Apparently GRUB relies on
> the BIOS, so make sure that all your harddisks are set in it.

I went back into the BIOS and verified that the (single) hard drive was 
detected.  Made no difference at all.

Here, in more detail, is what I tried and what the results were:

1. I loaded the 10.0 distribution DVD, went to 
Installation/UPdate/Other/Expert Repair.

2. I went to the Partition Tool and saw the listing of the partitions, but 
with no mount points.

3. I refreshed the listing and got mount points for the Windows partitions and 
for swap, but not for root.

4. I clicked Finish and got the message "Yast2 needs a root partition to 
install.  Assign the root mount point to a partition."

5. I went back to the partition list, attempted to edit hda7 (the intended 
root partition), but the mount point info was greyed out so I couldn't edit 
it.

6. I backed out of the partitioner and went to "Install New Boot Loader".  It 
indicated that I had installation errors.  I chose Finish and was told that 
the errors had been repaired, but another call to the boot loader showed 
errors again.

7. I rebooted and went to the rescue system.  I mounted my intended root 
partition, then did a chroot to it followed by mount -a.

8. I went into Yast and again chose the boot loader.  This time I got the 
message "Because of the partitioning, the boot loader cannot be installed 
properly."  No further explanation of what might be wrong with the 
partitioning.

9. I went to the partitioner and discovered that it showed no partitions.

10. I exited Yast and used cfdisk to look at the partitions.  They were all 
there.

Can anyone tell me what's going on?

Paul