[opensuse] OpenSUSE 11.2 Boot Problem
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/16/2009 06:31 PM, Matthias Titeux wrote:
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.
File: grub.info, Node: Stage2 errors, Prev: Stage1.5 errors, Up: Troubleshooting 17 : Cannot mount selected partition This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB. Are you using ext4? The standard, non suse grub, or the oS 11.1 grub, does not support ext4. Perhaps you still have the old grub installed with the new configuration. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2-ex-factory "Emerald" GM) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksC/KkACgkQU92UU+smfQUXYQCfbslLynFl/kR27wlziGKEM3BN 2yEAnjIuGArdJDtb7uKLvvhsUO58ukGe =bU1T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 02:42:33 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 11/16/2009 06:31 PM, Matthias Thanks wrote:
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.
File: grub.info, Node: Stage2 errors, Prev: Stage1.5 errors, Up: Troubleshooting
17 : Cannot mount selected partition This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
Are you using ext4? The standard, non suse grub, or the oS 11.1 grub, does not support ext4. Perhaps you still have the old grub installed with the new configuration.
Thanks fir your reply. No, I am not using ext4, rather ext3. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate http://www.FoundationForChemistry.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Thanks fir your reply. No, I am not using ext4, rather ext3. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate http://www.FoundationForChemistry.com
Are you sure ? The default installation settings for openSUSE 11.2 seems to be ext4. (at least during the install I have done using KDE live CD, it format / ext4 by default (and correctly picked up /home formated ext3). I am asking because you may have been hit by the same issue as Bob S (see thread booting 11.2. I am now quite sure that Bob installed 11.2 and is trying to boot with the 11.1 (or whatever previous) GRUB, because the 11.2 GRUB was installed on a different location. Cheers -- / \ /_!_\ 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
Stephen P. Molnar composed:
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.
The normal first "boot" following installation does not use Grub. Rather, it uses kexec. http://en.opensuse.org/Kexec -- The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 1 Corinthians 7:3 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
The normal first "boot" following installation does not use Grub. Rather, it uses kexec. http://en.opensuse.org/Kexec
So I am probably mistaken, and I apologize... still the OP says: "I <snip> rebooted the machine I got Grub error 17 and the boot just stat there" So Grub is loaded. and Carlos precise that : "File: grub.info, Node: Stage2 errors, Prev: Stage1.5 errors, Up: Troubleshooting 17 : Cannot mount selected partition This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB." that is why I asked the OP whether he was sure about the / filesystem. 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
On Monday 16 November 2009 11:33:55 Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
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.
Hello, I see you asking questions about other things in 11.2. So that means you solved the booting problem. Care to publish what you did to resolve it? Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 11/16/2009 11:15 PM, Bob S wrote:
On Monday 16 November 2009 11:33:55 Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
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.
Hello,
I see you asking questions about other things in 11.2. So that means you solved the booting problem. Care to publish what you did to resolve it?
Bob S
I really hate to disappoint you, but I haven't solved the boot problem am just living with it until help arrives. Certainly, if I knew the solution, I would have posted it. It's the interaction with the group that keeps me going. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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