Le Monday 16 November 2009 17:33:55 Stephen P. Molnar, vous avez écrit :
I have just installed v11.2 on a HD dedicated to it. Fortunately, I have 10.3 installed on another DM on AMB 64bit machine.
The installation went without incident and the machine rebooted normally during the installation. However, after I removed the installation DVD and rebooted the machine I got Grub error 17 and the boot just stat there.
I rebooted into 10.3 by selecting the sequence Installation/Repair sequence.
As I am not a hardware person, I will be very appreciative of help in solving this problem.
Thanks in advance.
-- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Foundation for Chemistry http://www.FoundationForChemistry.com
Hi, I am wondering if this can be due to the GRUB default installation ? See my earlier post (thread: booting 11.2). I post it again, here: ____________________________________________________________ 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 ? ____________________________________________________________________ So, basically did you installed 11.2 on top of a previous OpenSUSE installation ? Did you check where GRUB was installed (MBR, boot partition...) Did the installer (you ?) choosed to format the / partition with ext4 ? If someone see this, can He confirm/infirm that the installation of the new GRUB on the boot partition while an old GRUB lies in the MBR could be a problem. What is the default GRUB install setting when installing from the DVD ? (I did not do it yet) Cheers Matthias -- / \ /_!_\ 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