On 07/03/2021 22.38, Mark Misulich wrote:
I installed / to one partition, /home to another partition, and /boot to another small partition. All of the installation partitions are ext4. The bios is set to bios boot (legacy). The boot loader is Grub2 and the master boot record is on /dev/sda. I have several other installed and working linux operating systems in this way and Grub 2 recognizes all of them and they boot normally (including an operating 15.2 system on this computer; I'm using it to write this thread). But I haven't had to include a separate /boot partition in the past on any of the other distros that I have installed previously.
When I try to boot the 15.3 system, it boots up to terminal. I am able to log in as user, then to try to get the graphical system up I have
Ok. So, this means you do NOT have a boot problem, that how you installed grub2 or where it is is irrelevant, and that your partition layout is irrelevant. All you wrote above you could have saved yourself the trouble :-P
Unless you want to discuss why you needed a separate /boot partition.
Yes, I would like to know that.
Ok, run (single line): lsblk --output NAME,KNAME,RA,RM,RO,PARTFLAGS,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL,PARTLABEL,PTTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,UUID,PARTUUID,WWN,MODEL,ALIGNMENT
somefile.txt
then attach the file to the email. Don't copy-paste, it has long lines and they wrap. That will give us an idea of the partition/filesystem layout and we can start from there. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)