On Tuesday 17 November 2009 01:03:12 Felix Miata wrote: .....<snippedall of the previous stuff>.........
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.
Yes I assumed it would still be 0x83 in ext 4 but it threw me that it was identifying as ext2 (ext3 with jounaling) as a given.
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.
Well, you are right, Don't remember exactly but it would be a SuSE, 10.2, 10.3. or 11.0. I guess that I will have to re-install 11.2 as ext3 because I don't know if a new "revised" grub will handle my other os's.
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.
Yes, as stated above. At first the other os's would not boot because of the 11.2 entries in fstab. Once I removed them they booted fine. (My own idiosyncrasie. I like to have every partition on every os mounted within the system that I have chosen to run so that I can access any os, any partition whenever I want or need to.)
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. --
Yes. as stated above. I ran grub from the rescue system on the DVD and tried many iterations of the grub prompt without successfully booting 11.2. I guess it is time I made a grub boot disk and/or reinstalled 11.2 as ext3/ I think you must be more perceptive than I when you thought about the problems associated with the new grub and ext4 as to their relationship with other os's. Would have been nice to have known these things beforehand.
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