2012/7/3 Michael Chang
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:03:46AM -0700, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Hi Folks,
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I would try re-create your scenario, and see if I could reproduce it. looks to me like this?
sda1 ext2 /boot 100mb * (bootable) sda2 swap 8G sda3 reiserfs / 24G sda4 reiserfs /home free-hog
Just tried above scenario and bump to grub2-setup fail message. I think this is reported and fixed by 2.0 update .. see bnc#765198. It seems to me that the grub2's ext2 fs module has problem on supporting blocklist installation and unstable. And 2.0 fixed it by os native ioctl to retrieve blocklist. Please try RC1 when it's out. And let me know if it still can't work. Thanks, Michael
Or do you use any extended|logical partition?
option of changing things around and I then selected grub1. Grub seemed to work okay and a green screen with the Gecko and fuzzy white blobs floating around appeared. A white progress bar also appeared. I let it go for a bit but the only things that happened was the fuzzy blobs stopped moving around as much, but the progress bar continued to move right at a very slow pace. I hit escape at a point a couple of minutes into this and saw what appeared to be the kernel log spewing out boot information, but it seemed like it was in a loop. It was moving too fast for me to draw a bead on what it was saying. After what appeared to be a half-dozen loops the green Gecko screen reappeared and froze.
Probably bnc#768185 ?
Bummer.
So I tried another install, this time going completely with the defaults. I didn't customize a thing. This time grub2 didn't complain and showed the new grub2 selection screen. I hit the default selection and it proceed to boot to the same green Gecko screen and froze. ESC did nothing. CTL/ALT/DEL didn't work, a hard power cycle was the only way to break the cycle.
Bummer. Apparently grub2 doesn't grok Reiserfs, even with an ext-2 /boot.
It should be supported.
So I tried a new install with 12.1 and things went well enough. Bluetooth worked (mouse), sound worked, and the function key volume controls work. Initially the screen brightness buttons worked, but after a zypper dup they failed. More importantly, wifi doesn't work. The kernel sees the chipset and tries to bring it up, but fails. The latest Knoppix also fails wifi. Graphics work well enough, but glxgears shows a frame rate of about 58 frames per second. The screen seems okay, however.
I'd be happy to file a bug report, but there's not enough for me to hang a bug on, that I can see. Just "install fails, green Gecko gets in way of seeing action".
I hate to admit this, but my 8-year old grand daughter was clamoring to use the new laptop, so I tried Ubuntu. It installed easily and everything works as intended. Even the web cam. (didn't try the mic) I've been using SuSE since 5.2 and have made hundreds of installs. I don't intended to change, but that Ubuntu install sure was slick... My grand daughter has been using openSuSE since she was 4-years old, but I'd rather she use Ubuntu than Windows.
I'm sorry about make you disappoint, hope could do something to compensate the loss, we did care about it.
Thanks to reporting it,
Regards, Michael
I've got a desktop at work that needs an install, I'll try 12.2 again and see what happens.
Regards, Lew
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