On 11/02/14 16:03, doug wrote:
On 02/10/2014 11:31 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
....which is an understatement :-) . My puzzlement comes in 2 parts.
Part #1.
Last November I bought a Thinkpad that came with Windows 8 pre-installed and I promptly upgraded that to 8.1.
I then installed 13.1 and had both systems running -- until a couple of weeks ago when some upgrades/updates were done using zypper and suddenly I could not boot into any of the systems - the system would freeze as soon as the word "grub" appeared (ie, the grub menu did not appear). I check all the partitions using SystemRescueCD and everything looked fine. I got tired of not getting anywhere so formatted the whole HDD and installed only 13.1.
All worked fine until a couple of days ago when once again when zypper did some upgrades/updates and I then discovered that I had no wi-fi or cable access to the internet. I looked in YaST and found that the oS was using Network Manager so I tried to change that to 'ifup' but this cannot be done because YaST is 'telling' me that it smpppd first needs to be installed - but I have no access to the 'net. I am now trying to work thru this by using the installation CD which I will do in the next several minutes.
But the real puzzlement in this Part #2.
Remember I said that I had formatted the whole HDD and installed 13.1 only?
Well, in trying to resolve the above hassle I used 'fdisk -l' to see if the CD I had in the sr0 was being recognised by 13.1 (it wasn't) but what I saw made my jaw drop: fdisk - was showing that the HDD still had all the partitions in their original positions when Windows 8/8.1 was installed as well as the new installation of 13.1.
But looking at the Partitioner in YaST showed the new partitioning scheme after I had formatted the HDD and installed 13.1 the second time.
How can this be?
If anybody can throw some light on either or both of the above I would be most grateful.
BC
PS BTW, the Thinkpad has an Intel cpu and also NVIDIA NVS 5400M Graphics with Optimus Technology.
I would use a Live GParted disk and see what that says. Or a system disk that has GParted on it would be even better, because then you could use the file manager to actually look at the partition(s) and see what's on them, if anything.
--doug
SystemRescueCD contains GParted and this is what I used to reformat and partition the HDD when wiping out Windows to install 13.1. BC -- A civilisation is judged by how it treats the most vulnerable. Lauren Smith - 30 January 2014 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org