http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c26 Nick Levinson changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Version|Final |13.2 CC| |Nick_Levinson@yahoo.com Component|Bootloader |Bootloader Hardware|x86-64 |Other Resolution|FIXED |--- Target Milestone|--- |13.2 Product|openSUSE 13.1 |openSUSE Distribution OS|openSUSE 13.1 |openSUSE 13.2 --- Comment #26 from Nick Levinson --- Version 13.2 bootup also produces the message "error: sparse file not allowed" which shortly disappears as booting continues without choices that used to be visible at this stage. Until recently, on my single-OS laptop installed with defaults (including for the filesystem) and kept evergreen, I got a screen with several choices, a picture of a lizard-top logo, and soon text lines with a mention of the specific kernel being used in booting. Now I just get the kernel lines. Speed seems unaffected. For a cause in how I use the laptop, perhaps it began after I (accidentally) let the battery run down because I forgot to plug the AC in. I know both the rundown and the lack of choices happened near each other in time, but I'm not sure that the latter began on the next bootup after the rundown. I never explicitly use sleep or hibernate modes but when a battery runs low the OS starts nagging me and maybe on rundown it automatically went into that mode. I have cold-rebooted a bunch of times without the boot menu coming back. I don't want to edit internal files and risk unwanted consequences I'm not geeky enough to figure out. I have the OS on a refurbished debranded laptop, formerly probably a HP 2000 notebook. For this bug report, I'm reopening and updating the version. I don't doubt a repair for an earlier version. Relevant, including technical discussions, are forum threads https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/501545-13-2-RC-1-sparse-file on ver. 13.2, https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/506811-Grub-message-quot-sparse-f... on 64-bit ver. 13.2 about a year ago, and https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/514241-Error-Sparse-files-not-all... on Leap 42.1. My hardware is an AMD laptop; I'm not sure if that's of an x86-64 architecture. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.