Am Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008 schrieb Peter Czanik:
Hello,
Stephan Kulow írta:
- I installed to an extended partition (/dev/sda5). The default boot
sda5 is usually a logical and not an extended partition.
Don't use x86 enough to remember the right terminology :)
manager configuration is broken, as grub is only installed to an extended partition. This results in an unbootable system. It works fine when MBR is also used.
From http://en.opensuse.org/Bootloader/Scenarios Loader itself can be installed to one (or more) of following master boot record of the primary disk boot sector of primary partition on primary disk holding one of ext2 or ext3
/dev/sda5 does not fit these requirements.
I know (use DOS from '89 and Linux from '94). But somebody, who installs openSUSE by accepting most default settings and without reading a wiki (most of the users...) will run into an unbootable system when using the defaults.
Yast should not have proposed /dev/sda5 - we'd need your yast logs there. (You don't need to reinstall, just let yast create the proposal and then save_y2logs). Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org