[opensuse] 11.2 Boot Problem
OpenSuSE 11.2 on AMD 64bit CPU. This system is giving me fits with the Grub boot loader. When I did the complete install I used a complete HD, leaving the functioing 10.3 installation on another HD, and selected the defaulrt Grub settings. The first failure to boot gave me the following error statements: GRUB loading error 17 and hung. After much hair pulling (I really can't spare any now that winter seems to have arrived), I managed to boot the system using the following: mount the 10.3 DVD and boot the maching from that drive Selece Installallation/Repair/Expert/Boot Installed Sustems/ Boot either 10.3 or 11.2 A tad clumsey, but it works. Today I ran the 11.2 DVD and selected Installation/Repair/Custom/Boot Loader which worked (supposidly) and installed a new Grub. However, when I boot the system (after removing the DVD) I get: Guub Loading Stabe 1.5. Grub Loading, please wait . . . I waited and I waited and I waited and ......... --->- back to he mount the 10.3 DVD, etc..... (Incidentially the 11.2 DVD keeps cycling through the Partition or System to boot selection) One other thing, I selected the option to boot ffrom the root directory for the 11.2 installation. The root directory is /dev/sdc1 formatted ext3. Here is the menu.lst: # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Dec 10 14:47:36 EST 2009 # THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader # Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd3,0)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX root (hd3,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00A7B0_WD-WMASY0223768-part1 repair=1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1200JB-00GVA0_WD-WCALA1589923-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x348 initrd /boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX root (hd3,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00A7B0_WD-WMASY0223768-part1 showopts apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x348 initrd /boot/initrd I will really appreciate a solution to this problem, booting the machine with the 10.3 DVD is getting very old. Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-12-10 at 14:58 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
OpenSuSE 11.2 on AMD 64bit CPU.
This system is giving me fits with the Grub boot loader. When I did the complete install I used a complete HD, leaving the functioing 10.3 installation on another HD, and selected the defaulrt Grub settings.
You can not boot 11.2 with 10.3 grub, it does not support ext4. You have to install 11.2 grub on 10.3, or define the 11.2 disk as the boot disk in bios.
The first failure to boot gave me the following error statements:
GRUB loading error 17
and hung.
Normal: 17 : Cannot mount selected partition This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkshYl4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UheACggfS79kVzPWB2ucr8j1PvW2FG vn4An0ahheohFdB0e7ZV6Qa9z0Hy/tbw =HO11 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 12/10/2009 04:04 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Thursday, 2009-12-10 at 14:58 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
OpenSuSE 11.2 on AMD 64bit CPU.
This system is giving me fits with the Grub boot loader. When I did the complete install I used a complete HD, leaving the functioing 10.3 installation on another HD, and selected the defaulrt Grub settings.
You can not boot 11.2 with 10.3 grub, it does not support ext4. You have to install 11.2 grub on 10.3, or define the 11.2 disk as the boot disk in bios.
The first failure to boot gave me the following error statements:
GRUB loading error 17
and hung.
Normal:
17 : Cannot mount selected partition This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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iEYEARECAAYFAkshYl4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UheACggfS79kVzPWB2ucr8j1PvW2FG vn4An0ahheohFdB0e7ZV6Qa9z0Hy/tbw =HO11 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Thanks for your reply. I'm afraid, however, that you missed one detail in my email, the 11.2 HD is formatted ext3.
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