On Thursday 30 September 2010 00:29:09 David C. Rankin wrote:
That sounds like yast2 totally screwed the pooch there. Save the log files as a bug report is probably needed. There have been many changes in yast2 over the past 3 releases, grub has changed to. Also, I presume when you say device mappers you mean (/boot/grub/device.map) and not dmraid (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_xxxxxxxxpYY). (because there have been big dmraid changes over the past year)
Isn't the partitioner "global"? The same for any SuSE OS on the computer? The others used it "globally" invoking all of the "labels" and "fstab" entries.
Should be.
The following output would help:
cat /proc/partitions df -h mount
Set me straight on this. I'm afraid to correct the partitioner in
11.3 for fear of screwing up the other OS's.
Hope somebody can set me straight on the basics.
Bob,
I usually do the grub setup by hand when I run into issues. I have some pretty strange grub setups on some boxes (Arch Linux, SuSE 11.0, SuSE 11.3, and Windows) spinning on multiple raid sets that chainload bootloaders from array to array, etc..
I have only installed 11.3 on my laptop with an upgrade, but yast got the install and simple partitioning for that 1 disk 3 partitions 11.3/vista setup right. What I would do is compare the menu.lst and device.map files and piece together a working copy. One big area you will need to check is how the 11.3 grub wants to reference your devices in menu.lst E.g.:
23:15 zephyr:~> ls -1 /dev/disk/ by-id by-label by-path by-uuid
Make sure your entries are consistent and that your device.map files use the correct nomenclature. E.g.:
23:16 zephyr:~> sudo cat /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK1031GAS_84V31141S
or with multiple dmraid arrays:
You can also switch between by-(methods) as long as you are consistent.
Your X issues probably stem from mismatched 11.2 and 11.3 repositories when you did the upgrade. Check that all your repos are pointing to 11.3 repos:
grep base /etc/zypp/repos.d/* | sed -e 's/^.*s[.]d\///'
Also try the nvidia driver instead of the nouveau driver and see if you luck improves. You can (1) just mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.sav and let X choose its defaults. And ... make sure you haven't specified a non-existing desktop in ~/.xinitrc (if you made changes).
Lastly post /var/log/Xorg.0.log which will help the list help you with the X issue.
Dave Thanks for the reply and helpful hints. Made some changes in fstab and grub, got rid of some of those extraneous files and rebooted intending to follow some more of your suggestions. Now the darn thing loads to a prompt and does not accept the root bor the user passwords. Oh well I guess it is time for a reinstall. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org