Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1660 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 11 December 2009 00:28:33 Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2009/12/10 22:43 (GMT-0500) Bob S composed:
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> > > On 2009/12/09 02:04 (GMT-0500) Bob S composed:
> > > > .... (sdc8) Not sure what you mean about
> > > > the "root=position". You mean as an option on the grub menu? You
> > > > mean /dev/sdc8 ? or (hd2,7) ?
> > >
> > > The kernel lines in your 11.2 menu.lst stanzas include something like:
> > >
> > >  kernel...vmlinuz...root=/dev/disk/yadayadayadayadayadayadayadayadayada
> > > showopts...
> > >
> > > While in the Grub menu part of the boot process, substitute /dev/sdc8
> > > for the .../yadas in your menu choice and report back what happens when
> > > you proceed.
> >
> > I edited the menu.lst as you suggested.
>
> I'd like you to point me to the archive URL of the post where you think I
> suggested editing menu.lst. I don't remember any such thing.
OK. guess I misunderstood you. From a few lines up is"> >> The kernel lines in 
your 11.2 menu.lst stanzas include something like:
> > >
> If you are going to edit menu.lst, move all the showopts in front of root=
> so that in the future you can easily edit root=yadayada... while using the
> menu to boot.

OK, that is not a big deal.

> > Changing /dev/disk/yadayada
> > to /dev/sdc8.  Tried to boot  and now it tells me it cannot find
> > /dev/sdc8 rather than the /dev/disk/by-label it did previously.
So that is why I changed it in menu.lst

> OK. Next, do what I actually suggested.

Hmmm.l...confusion reigns....Not sure what you actually suggested.
> > Interestingly the line above it in the boot sequence also says it cannot
> > find /dev/sdc3 (which is the resume line) in menu.lst) and states
> > ignoring then continues on to the next line about not finding /dev/sdc8.
>
> Add noresume to your kernel lines in grub and you'll get fewer messages.
OK. But not a big deal. Don't really care. Just told you for info. /dev/sdc3 
is actually my swap partition.

> > > Oh, wait a minute. SUSE stupidly puts the showopts parameter after the
> > > root= on kernel lines, and moves it back every time perl-Bootloader gets
> > > run after manually putting it in the more useful pre-root= position.
> > > That prevents you from seeing the root= section while in the GFX Grub
> > > menu.
> > >
> > > To do what I wrote requires you exit the GFX Grub menu to the text Grub
> > > menu to edit the kernel line root= section.
> >
> > I have no idea what you are telling me here, not understanding the "SUSE
> > way" and do not know what you mean by the GFX Grub menu.
>
> GFX Grub menu is the screen from which you choose a Grub stanza to boot, or
> whatever else is in the Grub menu, like chainloading Windows or running
> Memtest. It is distinguished from standard grub menus in that standard grub
> menus have no more than four colors, commonly only two colors, no Function
> key submenu across the bottom of the screen, and no edit line for the
> currently selected kernel.
>
> > I have tried every iteration of configuration I can possibly think of.
>
> This is where understanding how to use the Grub prompt is helpful, or more.
Sure wish I could. Have read all I could find, including stuff you have posted 
previouly to other folks.

> Exit the Grub GFX menu, and exit the Grub text menu to the grub prompt. 
> When you get there, do:
>
>       find /boot/grub/stage1
>
> That will list locations where Grub has been "installed". If you know what
> to do next, good. If not, just CAD to reboot. Then either try to figure out
> which of those is the actual location of your 11.2 partition, and
> substitute both the root= device name on the kernel line and the root (x,y)
> line that corresponds to it on your next attempt(s) to boot, in the manner
> I indicated previously (on the fly) as opposed to actually editing
> menu.lst, or report back here what it lists for further instructions.
> --

OK, when I did that, this is what I got:
------------------------------------------------------------
grub>
      find /boot/grub/stage1
 (hd1,0)
 (hd2,7)

grub>
----------------------------------------------------
Which is correct. (hd2,7) is the 11.2 partition. Don't know where to go from 
here.

Bob S

Really hope I am not being stupid....stupid....alzhiemers setting in here.
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