My desktop system has been running oS v11.1, which is installed on one of the two hard disks. The other HD contains an older oS release which I wish to replace with oS v11.3. This alternation is the way I have been upgrading the software for several years.
Each installed system has a SWAP partition in sdX5, a / partition in sdX6, and /home in sdX7. (All the partitions are logical; the only primary partition is an IBM Boot Manager
In each of the two installed systems, GRUB is located in the / partition.
When I tried to install oS v11.3, the process failed when it should have done the first repeat. That is, the installer announced a reboot, but nothing actually happened.
Booting the system goes as follows:
IBM Boot Manager comes up with its menu offering me the two systems (only one of which is actually installed). I choose one, the appropriate openSuSE boot manager appears for about a second, followed by the following on a black screen:
***** root (hd1,5) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition tiype 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.48-0.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- Hitachi_HDP725025GLA380_GEK264RS01U4JA-part6 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata- HDS728080PLA380_PFDB37ELRUB49E-part5 splash=silent vga=0x31a
Error 15: File not found *****
The above is for one of the boot choices; the other differs only by the HD numbers.
(For those familiar with DFSee, I have generated the DFSDISK analysis files for the system, and have sent them for analysis to DFSee Support a couple of weeks ago, but have received no response, no doubt because the developer is on vacation.
Any helpful insight about getting past this hurdle, and either finishing/reinstalling 11.3 or at least gaining access to the v11.1 installation, would be enormously appreciated.
What happens if you choose the other boot menu entry? Can you get to a grub menu? Did you install 11.3 from DVD? Or do you have a linux Live-CD? And, a point of clarification: While the grub files are in the root partition, a logical, the grub bootstrap code is not. That is, grub will have either been installed to the MBR (but probably not, given that the IBM Boot Manager is working, i.e., the IBM code is in the MBR) or to a primary partition boot sector. You have two, not one, primaries: The first, where the IBM Boot Manager lives. The second is the extended primary inside of which the logicals live. My guess is that grub was installed to the extended primary's boot sector with a pointer to sdb6. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org