This process managed to completely kill my system. However, I suspect it may be a hardware issue. After I could no longer boot my system, I tried to reinstall from DVD. It stops at about 98% and the last lines in details are about preparing the system for initial boot and the last line showing is "Copying log files to installed system". I bought this motherboard about 8 years ago and have always used it with IDE drives. I guess I'll be putting in the new motherboard sooner than planned. On Sunday, March 23, 2014 11:37:16 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote: В Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:13:05 -0400 James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> пишет:
Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
Do you want to install grub2 in MBR or on partition?
I though the usual practice with Linux was to have grub on the boot partition, with the MBR pointing to it. That's the way it's configured here.
a) mount your new boot partition anywhere; e.g. /newboot b) run "grub2-install --force --boot-directory=/newboot /dev/your-boot-partion" c) use fdisk to mark your boot partition as active. I assume you have valid MBR on this disk ... This will make your new boot partition bootable with grub2 as bootloader and grub2 will use new boot partition to search for executable and configuration files. Assuming your BIOS is set to boot from this disk. To properly create grub.cfg and initrd for new configuration: mount /dev/new-root-device /mnt mount /dev/new-boot-device /mnt/boot mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys mount --bind /run /mnt/run chroot /mnt grub2-mkconfig > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg mkinitrd Do not do it from openSUSE DVD rescue boot, it has weird links in /dev that may screw device detection (at least for LVM or anything that uses device mapper). Having duplicate filesystem labels or uuids may be a problem as well. Probably grub-mkconfig needs better support for off-root rescue root. Patch was floating upstream, need to get a look once more. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org