On 2012-11-01 16:34 (GMT+0100) Oddball composed:
My question is: How do i find the right things to put here, and how do i do it?
Find menu.lst if it exists in the /boot tree somewhere and show us what it contains. Also if you can, find grub.cfg in the /boot tree somewhere, and show us what it contains.
Op 01-11-12 16:58, Felix Miata schreef: menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on do nov 1 16:47:34 CET 2012 # THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader # For the new kernel it try to figure out old parameters. In case we are not able to recognize it (e.g. change of flavor or strange install order ) it it use as fallback installation parameters from /etc/sysconfig/bootloader default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,2)/message ##YaST - activate ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 12.2 root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop root=/dev/system/root video=1024x768 resume=/dev/system/swap splash=silent quiet showopts initrd /initrd-3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop-kdump ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Veilige modus -- openSUSE 12.2 root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop root=/dev/system/root showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe initrd /initrd-3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop-kdump ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Kernel-3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop root=/dev/system/root video=1024x600 resume=/dev/system/swap splash=silent quiet showopts initrd /initrd-3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop -----------------------------------------------________________________----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Device map, what is left of it from grub2: (also in grub) (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-RunCore_64G-C_SSD_000901022255 (hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Single_Flash_Reader_058F63356336-0:0
Note that you still are booting with Grub2 until you perform the steps outlined in http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/grub/grub_3.html#SEC9 or get YaST to do it. To get a good boot menu with less work, choose bootloader from the YaST menu and make it install Grub in the place where Grub2 is now, which seems to be EXT2 sda3 on your system. If you cannot get that to work, report back with those two files for next steps to try.
I already let Yast install it before i asked the question. There were no entries left, so i had to let yast make a proposel The thing is that the /boot partition was proposed by lvm, and suggested ext4 which i did. A big mistake to let lvm handle my set-up. So what i was trying to do is change yasts suggestion: 'ext2fs' into 'ext4fs', what it actually is. But i am again, not able to find where this comes from. Please do not get me wrong: I want to learn these things, because kind of things happen regularly when testing, and with no working, or non-existing tools, one must know/learn how to fix things without them. boot.readme: set LOADER_TYPE="none" in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader. Hint is used /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd symlinks as files which is already point to actual kernel. WARNING after kernel upgrade you must update also configuration manually, otherwise you cannot boot. That is what i wanted to do, create it like this, because it worked en is simple. But when i actually do it, yast refuses to save/apply, and says: name already in use, choose another one. So everything takes too much time, and some things still are not fixed. The upstream theme looks absolutely good enough for me: grub background is very nice, and login screen is acceptable, so i will use that for a while. If i am not able to get it done: fix the booting, i will choose to get rid off the lvm stuff, and start over. I am getting very tired, working for days without pause takes its toll, as you already noticed earlier.
Note too that from cmdline login as root on tty[1-6] life is easier if you learn to use Midnight Commander to navigate and view and edit files. Just mc as root, use the arrow keys to move around, and as the bar at the bottom shows, F3 to view highlighted file, F4 to edit highlighted file, F9 menu to do other things like search for a file or what file contains a string, all very easy compared to typing and remembering what to type for everything you want to do at repair time.
If command not found for mc, just 'zypper in mc' and try again.
As a test of mc, navigate into /etc/sysconfig, and look at bootloader file with F3. There you should see the default cmdline options that installation chose to use. For Grub Legacy this is the "DEFAULT_APPEND=" line. It is important information to rebuild your Grub menu, if it actually needs rebuilding. Before you try rebuilding, show it/them to us.
## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: list(grub,lilo,none) ## Default: grub # # Type of bootloader in use. # For making the change effect run bootloader configuration tool # and configure newly selected bootloader # # LOADER_TYPE="grub" ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: string ## Default: "splash=silent quiet showotps" # # Arguments for kernel which is used like default boot section. # If the options is commented perl-Bootloader uses his default arguments # for kernel. # DEFAULT_APPEND="video=1024x768 resume=/dev/system/swap splash=silent quiet showopts" ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: string ## Default: none # # VGA option for kernel which is used like default boot section. # If the options is commented or empty perl-Bootloader doesn't use it. # Empty option could be cause of broken size of fonts etc. # DEFAULT_VGA="" ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: string ## Default: "showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe" # # Arguments for kernel which is used like failsafe boot section # If the options is commented perl-Bootloader uses his default arguments # for kernel. # FAILSAFE_APPEND="showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe" ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: string ## Default: none # # VGA option for kernel which is used like failsafe boot section. # If the options is commented or empty perl-Bootloader doesn't use it. # Empty option could be cause of broken size of fonts etc. # FAILSAFE_VGA="" ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: string ## Default: "splash=silent quiet showotps" # # Arguments for XEN kernel in Dom0. # If the options is commented perl-Bootloader uses his default arguments # for XEN kernel. # XEN_KERNEL_APPEND="video=1024x600 resume=/dev/system/swap splash=silent quiet showopts" ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: string ## Default: none # # Arguments for XEN hypervisor # Usually it is empty or includes arguments like crashkernel for kdump etc. # XEN_APPEND="" ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: string ## Default: none # # VGA option for XEN kernel. # If the options is commented or empty perl-Bootloader doesn't use it. # Empty option could be cause of broken size of fonts etc. # XEN_VGA="" ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: yesno ## Default: no # # Should the boot cycle detection be used to # avoid unconditional reboot cycles of not # supervised system. # CYCLE_DETECTION="no" ## Type: integer(0:) ## Default: 1 # # The number of the entry in grub's menu.lst # which should be used on the next reboot cycle. # Note that the first entry has the number 0. # CYCLE_NEXT_ENTRY="1" ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: list(floppy,mbr,root,boot,custom,none) ## Default: mbr # # Location of boot loader. # For making the change effect run bootloader configuration tool # # LOADER_LOCATION="" -- Have a nice day, Oddball. OS: Linux 3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop i686 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@EeePc-Rob-SFN9 Systeem: openSUSE 12.2 (i586) KDE: 4.9.2 "release 511" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org