Hello, On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 22/03/14 17:54, David Haller wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, Basil Chupin wrote:
The installation went fine until it came to the first "reboot your computer" which is when the wheels fell off :-( . The reboot saw that there were multiple systems installed and.....went braindead and decided that it couldn't boot into any and so the whole lot defaulted to the laptop's built-in boot procedure (which knows nothing). Now I cannot boot into my existing 13.1 and, of course, 13.2 is not visible to complete the installation. What do you use as bootmanager? Is it a BIOS or EFI? Grub1, grub2, ...?
What errors do you get?
EFI is switched off so it is the BIOS which controls the boot process. I only use Grub2.
And the error I get is, "Multiple active partitions" after which the only way out is to reboot the laptop (or press and hold the ON button).
Easy. Boot anything with 'fdisk' or 'gdisk'. The following is assuming a normal MBR, not a GPT partition table, but with gdisk, it's much the same (except that a protective GPT-MBR probably has no active partitions at all and I'm not sure if GPT even has the concept of an active partition). So: Use 'lsscsi' to find the device (sdX) you need to work on. Then: # fdisk /dev/sdX [..] Command (m for help): p ### you'll see two parts with * in ### the "Boot" column [..] Command (m for help): a ### toggle "active" flag on partition Partition number (1-x): 3 ### toggle that of the appropriate "wrongly" ### "active" partition Command (m for help): p ### you should see only one parts * in ### the "Boot" column, the one you ### boot (Winders) from Command (m for help): v ### verify Command (m for help): w ### write & quit # sync; sync # reboot Done. The problem is: I have no idea which partition should be active, as you've neglected to add the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/sdX' or somesuch (well, I did not ask, did I). BTW: do you remember a "makeactive" anywhere in the installation process (of the booting stuff)? That might be the root-cause. HTH, -dnh -- G'Kar [to Marcus]: "If you're going to be worried every time the universe doesn't make sense, you'll be worried every moment of every day for the rest of your life." -- Babylon 5, 4x02 - Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org