On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 20:03 +0300, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
This is a vent, but it's serious.
Every time a GM comes out with gross bugs, I have feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy with regards to my beta testing of openSUSE. It's like I haven't done enough, didn't take good care and the baby was born retarded.
Gross bug number 1 LiveCD KDE4, boot as Live system then click "Install". At the end of installation, during "Saving boot loader" phase, a loud alarm comes out of the PC speaker and installation doesn't proceed.
Gross bug number 2 On this computer, I also have Windows. While in KDE, I click "Restart Computer" and choose "Windows" so next boot is directly into Windows. This works, then it works, then it works, then it works. It boots directly into Windows every fucking time I reboot the computer, no GRUB menu for me. In this case, I don't know yet what to do to work around this. I'll use Google and probably solve it, but the question is still there and it burns:
You know that installation related problems vary from system to system a lot. For example, I did not meet any of these problems, neither during testing phase nor in the GM. So I was just wondering if you did face similar problems during testing phase too, if indeed you had the chance to test on the same hardware. For your second problem, did you meet a helpful windows error checking and fixing blue screen when it started up? Because, it once happened to me that windows "fixed" the computer so that the GRUB was just gone from the MBR. In any case, you can just pop in a rescue CD [if you don't have a preferred one, you can try this out http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page , worked out qute well for me] and choose to fix the Grub. Hope you find solutions to the problems, but the GM quality in my opinion was quite good. Sorry to find it turned out not so good for you. Bye -- Atri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org