On 07/03/2012 12:03 AM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I'm not sure this is the right place to report this and apologize in advance if factory is the wrong venue.
Hi Folks, My thanks to Basil, Michael and Felix for replying. I'll summarize here. First, the new laptop that started all this isn't available for me to fiddle with any more. My grand daughter has taken it over and it's in "production". So I won't be able to try any of the suggestions in the original environment. But I've got access to some older laptops at work and will see what I can come up with. I wish I could try nomodeset and verbose to see what was really going on, will try that next time. It would have been great to get the system up far enough to actually see the log files, I guess didn't wait long enough? My fail-to-boot problem really sounds like bnc#768185, as Michael guessed. Michael asked if this was my original config: sda1 ext2 /boot 100mb * (bootable) sda2 swap 8G sda3 reiserfs / 24G sda4 reiserfs /home free-hog Yes, this was it! I've been in the habit of using a small /boot with ext-2 since I was bitten by a reiserfs bug about four years ago. I think Michael's guess about bnc#765198 is right on. So my first install probably encountered #765198, followed by #768185 after I choose grub1. Michael also said: "I'm sorry about make you disappoint, hope could do something to compensate the loss, we did care about it." No need to apologize, Michael! I feel guilty about not doing more to help the community over the years. I don't have the time to really get into the details, but if I can help by offering the perspective of a new-bee, I'm all over it! Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org