After sendint the forwarede message I stumblen on a way to boot to my
configured the way I like it OpenSUSE 10.3 installation. Because I
installed 11.1 on a new HD in the system, my 10.3 system is still there
in its original partition.
So the sequence is:
Installation/Repair/Expert/Boot Installed Systems/Boot (select
OpenSUSE 103)
and there is my fully configured, the way I like it, 10.3 user desktop.
This works with the 11.1 Installer, not the 10.3 installer, but is some
what cumbersome.
But the boot from the HD is still hanging in GRUB.
I have attached the 10.3 menu.lst to this message
Thansk in advance for any solutions to this problem.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 11.1 Boot Loader Problem
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:38:26 -0400
From: Stephen P. Molnar
To: Central OH Linux User Group , openSUSE Mailing
List
For reasons that I needn't go into I found it necessary to upgrade my
Linux system to OpenSUSE 11.1 form 10.3 (I was intending to wait for
11.2, but that's a different story)
I installed 111.1 on a new 500GB SATA HD without any complaints or
problems, until I rebooted the system without the installation DVD in
it's drive. Everything is well until I get to:
GRUB loading stage 1.5
When the boot hangs on:
GRUB loading, please wait . . .
In this case the ellipses represent a time of infinity.
OK. What I gon' to do? Well, boot the installation DVD and run Repair
System. The first two methods on that page were unsuccessful. I tried
Expert Tools and it told me that it succeeded. And, indeed it did as
long as I selected Repair Tools/Boot installed system from the pull down
menu at the bottom of the Expert Tools page. When I boot from the HD
(no installation DVD in drive) it still hangs
So I can boot 11.1, albeit it rather clumsily. I managed to copy the
Grub menu list to my windows machine (from which this pleas for help is
being dispatched. It's attached.
I am strictly a user and GRUB is an arcane mystery to me. Any help will
be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--
--
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set
Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate
http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
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kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-31-bigsmp root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500KS-00_WD-WCANK9498942-part2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off 3
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title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3
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