[opensuse] Grub2 fails to boot (opensuse 13.2)
I do not normally switch off my desktop so when grub stopped working I don't exactly know. However, my system became unbearably slow so I decided to reboot only to find that it just hung. I put in an installation CD and selected "boot from hard disk" and it did without displaying any grub menu.. I checked the grub installation and everything seemed fine but it won't boot. So I decided to do a reinstall of opensuse 13.2. The installation went well; no issues flagged up. When it finally got to rebooting it just hung as before (with nothing displayed on the screen). So I created a separate boot partition and reinstalled no error message, no change, no success. I recreated my root partition as a primary partition (originally in was part of my extended partition). Still no difference. Well I can still use my computer but I cannot boot it without a CD and there is no sign of any grub menu. I find it annoying but I can live with it (for now). The puzzling thing is that it was working okay originally, but has suddenly stopped working. I have tried writing grub to the root, boot and MBR at different times. All has come back as successfully written but still no boot. Has anyone any idea of what's going on or has anyone had a similar experience and if so how did you resolve it? Thanks in advance. Eddie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
It sounds like the firmware is confused for some reason. How many physical drives are attached, and does it boot if you remove all of them except for the one needed for booting? -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thursday 16 Jul 2015 17:00:49 Chris Murphy wrote:
It sounds like the firmware is confused for some reason. How many physical drives are attached, and does it boot if you remove all of them except for the one needed for booting?
I have two drives I'll try disconnecting one and see what happens. Probably do that over the weekend. Thanks for the suggestion. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
eddie composed on 2015-07-16 23:48 (UTC+0100):
I do not normally switch off my desktop so when grub stopped working I don't exactly know. However, my system became unbearably slow so I decided to reboot only to find that it just hung.
BIOS? UEFI? Before reinstalling, did you do any wiping? openSUSE only, or multiboot with Windows and/or another distro too, and if yes, which, and installed by whom, and when? If might help us help you to provide content of /etc/grub.conf and /etc/default/grub and output from gdisk -l. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thursday 16 Jul 2015 20:22:32 Felix Miata wrote:
eddie composed on 2015-07-16 23:48 (UTC+0100):
I do not normally switch off my desktop so when grub stopped working I don't exactly know. However, my system became unbearably slow so I decided to reboot only to find that it just hung.
BIOS?
UEFI?
Before reinstalling, did you do any wiping?
openSUSE only, or multiboot with Windows and/or another distro too, and if yes, which, and installed by whom, and when?
If might help us help you to provide content of /etc/grub.conf and /etc/default/grub and output from gdisk -l.
I was going to answer your questions but I found this script called boot info script at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/files/bootinfoscript/ I ran the script and part of the info that it gave me I thought was quite significant so I'm posting that instead; with the question as to how can I fix this? For starters, I'll try another installation of grub2 but if anyone else has a better suggestion please jump in. Here's the extract 1 sda1:______________________________________________________________________ 2 3 File system: ext4 4 Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99) 5 Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda1 6 and looks at sector 50634288 of the same hard drive 7 for core.img, but core.img can not be found at this 8 location. 9 Operating System: Welcome to openSUSE 13.2 10 "Harlequin" - Kernel (). 11 Boot files: /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /etc/fstab According to line 7 (I inserted the line numbers) core.img cannot be found . So I guess I'll try another grub2 install. Eddie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
eddie composed on 2015-07-17 18:33 (UTC+0100):
I have two drives I'll try disconnecting one and see what happens.
Some BIOS will change disk order if boot on one ever fails, and you won't know without a voyage through the boot section of the BIOS, except that the system won't boot normally. eddie composed on 2015-07-17 19:32 (UTC+0100):
I was going to answer your questions but I found this script called boot info script at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/files/bootinfoscript/
I ran the script and part of the info that it gave me I thought was quite significant so I'm posting that instead; with the question as to how can I fix this? For starters, I'll try another installation of grub2 but if anyone else has a better suggestion please jump in. Here's the extract
1 sda1:______________________________________________________________________ 2 3 File system: ext4 4 Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99) 5 Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda1 6 and looks at sector 50634288 of the same hard drive 7 for core.img, but core.img can not be found at this 8 location. 9 Operating System: Welcome to openSUSE 13.2 10 "Harlequin" - Kernel (). 11 Boot files: /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
According to line 7 (I inserted the line numbers) core.img cannot be found . So I guess I'll try another grub2 install.
Is there nothing on your other HD? Are both HD on SATA or both on PATA or one on PATA and the other on SATA? If mixed, highly likely the boot failure is rooted in a difference in device order that does not match among OS, Grub2 and BIOS. Before trying to install Grub2 yet again, ensure that the BIOS and your and Grub2's expectation of drive order in the BIOS match, else yet another Grub2 installation is likely to produce no better result. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Friday 17 Jul 2015 15:11:44 Felix Miata wrote:
eddie composed on 2015-07-17 18:33 (UTC+0100):
I have two drives I'll try disconnecting one and see what happens.
Some BIOS will change disk order if boot on one ever fails, and you won't know without a voyage through the boot section of the BIOS, except that the system won't boot normally.
Okay Felix, I finally decided to listen to you (after running the bootinfoscript on both of my computers and found no real difference between the results. So I headed into the BIOS and checked the boot order and everything seemed fine. I noticed that there was a hard disk order section. I went into that and discovered that SATA 1 was set first and then SATA 0. I reversed the order and guess what . . . TA-DA !. . . my system boots all on its own!!! Thank you sooooo much everyone. I am so very very grateful. A million thanks. (Its almost all good. I'll post the new problem as a separate issue but thanks again.). I'm going to get some rest now. Have a great night or day whichever is relevant and thanks again everyone. Eddie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
В Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:32:35 +0100
eddie
On Thursday 16 Jul 2015 20:22:32 Felix Miata wrote:
eddie composed on 2015-07-16 23:48 (UTC+0100):
I do not normally switch off my desktop so when grub stopped working I don't exactly know. However, my system became unbearably slow so I decided to reboot only to find that it just hung.
BIOS?
UEFI?
Before reinstalling, did you do any wiping?
openSUSE only, or multiboot with Windows and/or another distro too, and if yes, which, and installed by whom, and when?
If might help us help you to provide content of /etc/grub.conf and /etc/default/grub and output from gdisk -l.
I was going to answer your questions but I found this script called boot info script at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/files/bootinfoscript/
This script does not understand modern grub2. Please use https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript/raw/master/bootinfoscript and upload full results to susepaste.org.
I ran the script and part of the info that it gave me I thought was quite significant so I'm posting that instead; with the question as to how can I fix this? For starters, I'll try another installation of grub2 but if anyone else has a better suggestion please jump in. Here's the extract
1 sda1:______________________________________________________________________ 2 3 File system: ext4 4 Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99) 5 Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda1 6 and looks at sector 50634288 of the same hard drive 7 for core.img, but core.img can not be found at this 8 location. 9 Operating System: Welcome to openSUSE 13.2 10 "Harlequin" - Kernel (). 11 Boot files: /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
According to line 7 (I inserted the line numbers) core.img cannot be found . So I guess I'll try another grub2 install.
Eddie
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