On December 29, 2007 10:27:24 am Stan Goodman wrote:
** Reply to message from Felix Miata
on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:39:48 -0400 In brief, this is about recovery from a failed update of openSuSE from v10.2 to v10.3. I am sorry that I have had to wait so long since the event happened (in late Novermber), and thus break the train of thought of those who were helping me. The urgent matters that distracted me have been resolved, and I am free to continue.
I'm back now from my absence, and have attended to some of the crises that have popped up while I was away. I'm ready to attack the matter of my failed update to opensuse v10.3. What I have in mind is to install a maintenance copy of v10.3 into part of the now unused space on my HD, and to use it to retrieve the contents of the /home directory from the failed update. See below my plans for what to do after that. I would be very happy for any comments.
Today I installed a maintenance copy of v10.3 in a formerly unused 10GB of the HD. That installation seems to work properly, but I don't understand why the boot sequence is as it is:
The maintenance copy has but one partition in addition to SWAP. In setting up the installation, I was very careful to arrange that GRUB be installed in the root partition, rather than the MBR. After setting the configuration and before confirming actual installation, I verified that this was the case. I expected therefore that the boot sequence would be: OS/2 Boot Manager, followed by whatever line of BM is chosen. What actually happens is as follows:
1) openSuSE (maintenance partition) Welcome screen, with its list of choices 2) I choose "Boot from Hard Disk" 3) OS/2 Boot Manager 4) (after appropriate choice) openSuSE (maintenance) flash screen
In other words, the installation has created its own boot manager BEFORE the OS/2 Boot Manager. What has happened? How to correct this?
When I undo that, and get the boot sequence right, I will go ahead to the original problem.
In the late 90's and early 2000s I ran both OS/2 and its successor, eCS. While both Linux and OS/2 have LVM systems there are as I remember large incompatibilities between the two systems, requiring especial care when installing a boot manager. I never tried to triple boot Linux, Os/2 and Windoze, but I remember posts cautioning those doing so to do the partitioning first with OS/2's fdisk or DFSEE, and then get the OS/2 Boot Manager to hand off to GRUB or LILO. If you like I'll try to retrieve some of those old posts.... Bob. -- Bob Smits bob@rsmits.ca A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org