On Monday 16 November 2009 08:16:41 Matthias Titeux wrote:
Le Monday 16 November 2009 06:35:56 Bob S, vous avez écrit :
Hello SuSE people,
I downloaded and installed a clean new 11.2 GM iso 64 bit DVD yesterday. It installed just fine and allowed an ext4 file system. I chose to let it boot from it;s own primary. (Like the other os's I have installed) (Grub dutifully added it to it:s menu.) On it's own first boot It worked very well and I did a few small tweaks to it. Shutdown for the night.
Today, I booted up and chose the 11.2 entry in Grub and got this message:
boot (hd2,7) filesystem type is ext2fs partition type 0x83 configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
and sat there with the cursor flashing. Have no idea what it is doing or telling me and it won't boot 11.2. Had to shutdown.
Something about the filesystem? Ideas anyone? Please?
Bob S
Hi, I don't know if it is related but I have done 2 different install of OpenSUSE 11.2 this week end (both 32 bits). One fresh install on a netbook from the Live CD (on a USB Key) and one by zypper dist-upgrade. Both were succesfull but:
During the install on the netbook, the installer correctly chosed the / partition to be formated (moving from ext3 to ext4), recognised the /home and /windows/ partitions to be mounted (dual boot with win XP). I noticed however that the proposition for GRUB installation was odd: I had GRUB leaving on the MBR, and the installer proposed to install it on dev/sda3 (which is the / partition). So I changed the setting to MBR (on dev/sda).
Hi to you too, No, my grub proposal was just the opposite. It proposed the mbr and I changed it to the new proposed root partition (hd2,7) (I have 3 drives) Looking at the proposed grub menu it seemed correct, showing my other os's. At the first reboot when the grub menu came up 11.2 wasn't there. so I edited the grub file and added it. When I tried to boot it I got the message I reported above.
Everything worked like a charm, the dual boot works, no data loss.
But I wonder whether if I didn't change the GRUB settings, the system would have boot on the OLD GRUB which is unaware of the new kernel and more importantly can not boot on ext4-formated partitions (am I right ?)... so no boot ! May this explain what happened to you ?
It could be, but would have to have been the opposite way, I have never really understood the way grub works.
Do you know where GRUB was installed ?
I assume where it was told, but who knows? Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org