On Tuesday 28 September 2010 22:51:43 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/09/28 22:07 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
To my great surprise, the sequence got me the v11.3 (sic) welcome screen, and then booted into v11.1...
More tomorrow. When I attack this tomorrow, I will use the DFSee Linux version that I hope I will still have access to, rather than the DOS version on the bootable CD.
Pay attention to where DFSee lists Grub as filesystem instead of Linux in the Related column. My guess is that the 11.3 installer put things where it thought they belonged instead of where you needed/wanted them, only partially overwriting your 11.1 "Grub" with 11.3 Grub, leading to the whole mess you've been trying to extricate yourself from with this thread.
No, the root partitions are both marked for GRUB. I assume, BTW, that the fact that I get to the GRUBs indicates that the MBR is intact.
The 11.3 filesystems might be unreadable by 11.1's Grub, either due to 256 byte inodes, or use of EXT4 filesystem(s).
I only mentioned to Jan today that the partial 11.3 install was formatted with ext4; if he is aware of a problem with that, he may say something tomorrow. But it really doesn't matter much. The new install didn't even finish, so it has to be started over from scratch, and nothing is lost. I am not committed to ext4, and can format with ext3 if there is a reason to do so.
Booted to 11.1 you can reinstall its Grub, getting you back normal 11.1 operation. Once that's done we can figure out what can be done about 11.3 besides abandoning or reinstalling it.
As I say, there is no option, and I will install over it. Jan mentioned, by the way, that he believes recent Linux installers are problematic when there are multiple OSes on the system. Whether that is true or not, I intend to remove the 11.1 HD from the system when I install 11.3 (0r simply remove the Bootable flag from it), and after getting data and Java programs transferred from it to the new install, remove power from the 11.1 HD. Historically, after a new OS is installed, I never look at the older one, and there is no reason to spin its HD. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org