Re: [opensuse] 12.1 GRUB Loading Hangs
On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 04:37 PM Stephen P Molnar wrote:
I have a 64bit AMD CPU with 3MB Ram and 4 HD's and have been running openSUSE11.2 on a the system which boots into either openSUSE 10.3 or 11.2.
I have just done a new installation of 12.1 from the DVD to the 4th HD on the system with sdd1 as / and hdd2 as home. In fact I had to install the system twice as the first time I didn't use the auto configuration and for a reason unknown t me the boot hung a rebooting.
The second time I used the automatic configuration and received neither warning nor error messages during the installation and the system rebooted at the appropriate dime during the installation. I was even able to change the user to root after the installation was complete. However, when I rebooted the system from the root directory the boot process showed:
GRUB Loading stage 1.5, but hung on GRUB Loading, please wait . . .
Oh yes, I told the installer to put the boot loader in /, not the MBR.
I was able to reboot into openSUSE 10.3 by mounting the 11.2 DVD and running the installation process to the repair page. I Can mount the 12.1 DVD on the system
While I was able to boot into 12.1 it looked as if it was running well.
Any assistance will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate http://www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1
There may be a problem with where grub stage1 was pointed to find its stage2, or stage1 may not be running from where you think it is relative to your bios boot configuration. Use the 11.2 DVD to mount the 12.1 installed partition, then take a look at the 12.1 /etc/grub.conf. That is the batch command file that the installer creates to feed to grub, which does the actual installation. And compare the grub notation to /boot/grub/device.map to ensure the commands map correctly to your bios boot sequence. From that you may be able to determine what the installer actually did. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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