On 2009/11/17 00:00 (GMT-0500) Bob S composed:
On Monday 16 November 2009 00:35:56 Bob S wrote:
I downloaded and installed a clean new 11.2 GM iso 64 bit DVD yesterday. It installed just fine and allowed an ext4 file system. I chose to let it boot from it;s own primary. (Like the other os's I have installed) (Grub dutifully added it to it:s menu.) On it's own first boot It worked very well and I did a few small tweaks to it. Shutdown for the night.
Today, I booted up and chose the 11.2 entry in Grub and got this message:
boot (hd2,7) filesystem type is ext2fs partition type 0x83 configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
and sat there with the cursor flashing. Have no idea what it is doing or telling me and it won't boot 11.2. Had to shutdown.
Something about the filesystem? Ideas anyone? Please?
Replying to my own post still trying to figure out why 11.2 won't boot. I got the kernel version today and edited the primary menu.lst putting in the kernel version, initrd, etc, etc. and tried to boot. No good, I still get the message I posted originally (above) but it now has added all of the new stuff from the edit. OK, now I try a chainloader approach. No good.
So now I boot to the DVD and invoke the rescue system and bring up Grub. I type in root (hd2,7) and grub tells me that is invalid and not a partition. (I have 3 disks abd 11.2 isinstalled on a logical partition) Why? Should not make any difference.
One thing that really bothers me when I try to boot from menu.lst and it fails it always identifies it as ext2fs partition type 0x83. 11.2 was istalled as ext4. Grub shouldn't care what the filesystem is, Right?
Any ideas, tips, would be really welcome.
Just ideas, since I've not tried ext4 yet, and don't plan to as long as I'm installing to any system that has distro version(s) installed that may not support ext4. Since most of my systems are multiboot, it may be a very long time before I try ext4. That said, ext4 is an evolution of ext2. Grub tells type 0x83 because that's what it reads from the partition table, and all ext2 partitions (ext2, ext3, ext4) use that same 0x83 type in the tables. With all the troubles during 11.2 development with boot failure, I suspect you just have another iteration of those troubles, which I suspect may be a failure to replace the old Grub from your prior installation (10.3? 11.0? 11.1? Ubuntu? Fedora? Debian? Mandriva? other?) with the ext4-supporting Grub in 11.2. You might confirm this by reinstalling but selecting ext3 instead of ext4 as the boot/root partition format. Do you have any other OS installed on the system? If so, does it boot, and can it access your ext4 partition? If yes but no, you may be better off avoiding ext4 until it matures more, or until you no longer need an older version to be able to access the newer version, which ordinarily could be used to repair a messed up newer. Do you understand how to work from a Grub prompt? If so, it may pay to do some experimenting by not using Grub menus, booting manually by typing in various alternative cmdline settings to see if behavior changes. -- The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 1 Corinthians 7:3 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org