On Tuesday 08 December 2009 05:38:16 Istvan Gabor wrote:
I installed 11.2 a couple of weeks ago and have been playing with it on and off. Booted and ran just fine. At the present I have 3 other OS's installed. (10.2, 11.0, and winders) (11.0 is my everyday user system)
Last thursday I had a catastrophic failure of my MB. I replaced the MB and processor and got up running again. Except that 11.2 won't boot now. It starts with grub and gets about half way through the boot process and fails with the message "Cannot locate /dev/disk/by-label/11.2". Then it offers to look for the /dev/disk/by-id (which it identifies correctly) and I answer yes. Then it grinds away for awhile generating several lines of dots, and then tries to dump me into a shell and also fails with a kernel panic.
That is the very disk it is actually booting from???? and it can't find it?? To be fair, the grub that it is using is on 11.0 There are no logs generated. And maybe I don't understand the boot process well enought. Does the process run for a long time before it gets around to loading the software?
When the failure occurred it was at turning the machine on. What could have happened to cause this and how do I fix it? Some clues, ideas please?
Bob S
Hello:
I would try to boot the openSUSE 11.0 using an openSUSE 11.0 install DVD. Select repair system at the beginning, and later select expert tools, then boot installed system. (I am not exactly sure these arec the correct terms you will see, but similar. ) Then all the available installed system should be recognized, and you have to select the one you want to boot. Choose 11.0 and boot it. You should be able to login 11.0 and you can use YAST to reinstall a boot loader.
Hello Istvan. Thanks for replying. I have done exactly as you have suggested. Both with the 11.0 disk and the 11.2 disk. And I have "booted the installed system", both 11.0 and 11.2 successfully, although it misidentifies the disk. When I modify the grub to reflect where everything is properly, I end up with an error message that it could not make the changes. Grrrr.....I hate that "rescue system". It never works properly for as long as I can remember.
For multiple systems I prefer chainloading. Ie. the operation systems are loaded from their root partition's boot sectors, and the MBR boot sector just points to these boot sectors. For chainloading I use lilo, as I had no time yet to learn grub.
Tried to chainload also. Didn't help. I used LILO years ago but when grub became the popular boot manager I changed to it.
I hope this helps.
Thanks for trying. It is appreciated. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org