On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Bob S <911@sanctum.com> wrote:
On Monday 16 November 2009 00:35:56 Bob S wrote:
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?
Replying to my own post still trying to figure out why 11.2 won't boot. I got the kernel version today and edited the primary menu.lst putting in the kernel version, initrd, etc, etc. and tried to boot. No good, I still get the message I posted originally (above) but it now has added all of the new stuff from the edit. OK, now I try a chainloader approach. No good.
So now I boot to the DVD and invoke the rescue system and bring up Grub. I type in root (hd2,7) and grub tells me that is invalid and not a partition. (I have 3 disks abd 11.2 isinstalled on a logical partition) Why? Should not make any difference.
One thing that really bothers me when I try to boot from menu.lst and it fails it always identifies it as ext2fs partition type 0x83. 11.2 was istalled as ext4. Grub shouldn't care what the filesystem is, Right?
Any ideas, tips, would be really welcome.
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Bob, I doubt it is the path the the kernel that's the problem here... Not sure what is. Did you configure you FS's as ext2 or ext3? Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org