Le Monday 16 November 2009 06:35:56 Bob S, vous avez écrit :
Hello SuSE people,
I downloaded and installed a clean new 11.2 GM iso 64 bit DVD yesterday. It installed just fine and allowed an ext4 file system. I chose to let it boot from it;s own primary. (Like the other os's I have installed) (Grub dutifully added it to it:s menu.) On it's own first boot It worked very well and I did a few small tweaks to it. Shutdown for the night.
Today, I booted up and chose the 11.2 entry in Grub and got this message:
boot (hd2,7) filesystem type is ext2fs partition type 0x83 configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
and sat there with the cursor flashing. Have no idea what it is doing or telling me and it won't boot 11.2. Had to shutdown.
Something about the filesystem? Ideas anyone? Please?
Bob S
Hi, I don't know if it is related but I have done 2 different install of OpenSUSE 11.2 this week end (both 32 bits). One fresh install on a netbook from the Live CD (on a USB Key) and one by zypper dist-upgrade. Both were succesfull but: During the install on the netbook, the installer correctly chosed the / partition to be formated (moving from ext3 to ext4), recognised the /home and /windows/ partitions to be mounted (dual boot with win XP). I noticed however that the proposition for GRUB installation was odd: I had GRUB leaving on the MBR, and the installer proposed to install it on dev/sda3 (which is the / partition). So I changed the setting to MBR (on dev/sda). Everything worked like a charm, the dual boot works, no data loss. But I wonder whether if I didn't change the GRUB settings, the system would have boot on the OLD GRUB which is unaware of the new kernel and more importantly can not boot on ext4-formated partitions (am I right ?)... so no boot ! May this explain what happened to you ? Do you know where GRUB was installed ? Matthias PS: I will post the 2 successfull installs (It is nice not to post only when something goes wrong), and maybe go for a bug report about the default choice of GRUB install (still waiting for someone telling me that it is not a bug) -- / \ /_!_\ My e-mail address has just changed. Please note the new one : matthias.titeux@inserm.fr _____________________________________________________________ Matthias Titeux, PhD Département de génétique des maladies cutanées et allergiques dans des modèles animaux et chez l'homme. INSERM U563 - CPTP Pavillon Lefebvre, 5ème étage CHU Purpan BP3028 31024 Toulouse cedex 03 __________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org