[opensuse] Boot problem with opensuse 11.1
Well I'm up and running on 11.1, and have already bumbled into a problem... and I'm not sure exactly why it's happening with 11.1 but wasn't an issue with 11.0. On restart, I get a "No Operating system found, please insert boot disk and press any key to continue" error (or something close to that). If I boot from DVD, and then pick Boot from harddrive in the DCD Grub menu all is OK. What I think the issue is, is the drive order. I have 4 SATA drives in my computer. The BIOS boot order is set like this: - SATA 3 - SATA 2 - SATA 1 - SATA 4 This is the same hardware and BIOS configuration I was using with 11.0 and there were no issues... so I never looked into YAST > System > Bootloader to see what the config looked like. Now, on 11.1, if I go to YAST > System > Boot Loader > Boot Loader Installation > Boot Loader Installation Details I can see the device order... and they were shown in numerical order. I set them in the order as above, and restarted... still the same problem though... No OS found. Anyone else seeing this, or have an idea why it's happening now as opposed to 11.0? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clayton wrote:
Well I'm up and running on 11.1, and have already bumbled into a problem... and I'm not sure exactly why it's happening with 11.1 but wasn't an issue with 11.0.
On restart, I get a "No Operating system found, please insert boot disk and press any key to continue" error (or something close to that).
That's your BIOS saying it couldn't boot from the media specified.
If I boot from DVD, and then pick Boot from harddrive in the DCD Grub menu all is OK.
Somehow the bootloader didn't get installed right. Boot from DVD, configure GRUB the way you want it, then reinstall (or whatever ones does with grub). -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On restart, I get a "No Operating system found, please insert boot disk and press any key to continue" error (or something close to that).
That's your BIOS saying it couldn't boot from the media specified.
Yup, I know that.
If I boot from DVD, and then pick Boot from harddrive in the DCD Grub menu all is OK.
Somehow the bootloader didn't get installed right. Boot from DVD, configure GRUB the way you want it, then reinstall (or whatever ones does with grub).
I have tried that... several times with several different GRUB configurations and none work.. I either have a completely unbootable config (even will not boot from DVD) and I have to run the recovery process, or I have the same situation... BIOS cannot find things and I can only boot from the DVD. I am going to give it another go with a clean install again tonight (it's quick and easy since I have root on it's own partition). Maybe things will sort themselves out. If not, I can shuffle the hardware connections and make sure that SATA1 has the boot drive instead of SATA3. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:40:24 +0100, you wrote:
I either have a completely unbootable config (even will not boot from DVD) and I have to run the recovery process, or I have the same situation... BIOS cannot find things and I can only boot from the DVD.
Have you tried marking the partition to boot as active? Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I either have a completely unbootable config (even will not boot from DVD) and I have to run the recovery process, or I have the same situation... BIOS cannot find things and I can only boot from the DVD.
Have you tried marking the partition to boot as active?
Not as a specific step. This was a fully functioning hardware config running 11.0. All I did to go to 11.1 was pop in the DVD, format the root partition and install. No other changes were made.... I can (and will) go try making the boot partition active, but.. why would I need to do this now when it's been fine for several previous upgrades/installs? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I either have a completely unbootable config (even will not boot from DVD) and I have to run the recovery process, or I have the same situation... BIOS cannot find things and I can only boot from the DVD.
Have you tried marking the partition to boot as active?
Not as a specific step. This was a fully functioning hardware config running 11.0. All I did to go to 11.1 was pop in the DVD, format the root partition and install. No other changes were made....
I can (and will) go try making the boot partition active, but.. why would I need to do this now when it's been fine for several previous upgrades/installs?
Strange. I used the same DVD/hardware config and just reinstalled 11.1 from scratch.... this time it worked fine. It survives the reboot without any errors. Makes me wonder about the hardware... maybe it's telling me it's time to upgrade :-) Anyway, it's booting properly now... ither issues have popped up, but thatis another email. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clayton napsal(a):
I either have a completely unbootable config (even will not boot from DVD) and I have to run the recovery process, or I have the same situation... BIOS cannot find things and I can only boot from the DVD. Have you tried marking the partition to boot as active? Not as a specific step. This was a fully functioning hardware config running 11.0. All I did to go to 11.1 was pop in the DVD, format the root partition and install. No other changes were made....
I can (and will) go try making the boot partition active, but.. why would I need to do this now when it's been fine for several previous upgrades/installs?
Strange. I used the same DVD/hardware config and just reinstalled 11.1 from scratch.... this time it worked fine. It survives the reboot without any errors. Makes me wonder about the hardware... maybe it's telling me it's time to upgrade :-)
Anyway, it's booting properly now... ither issues have popped up, but thatis another email.
C.
This could be caused by switching bios number for disks. This is real problem of x86 architecture. Also you must be sure, that during installation or booting you doesn't have attached usb stick or any card reader, which act like data storage. This cannot be properly detected. But please open bug for rewrite sections after change of disk order, this now doesn't work (section is rewrited only if they marked as modified and because you doesn't modified sections and only disk order, section is not rewrited and is still with old number..also information about where install bootloader is unchanged. Thanks JR -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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