Re:[opensuse] GRUB Won't Install OS 11.1
I have a new Lenovo G530 laptop that came with Vista in three partitions:
1. Vista Preload 2. Main Vista 3. Lenovo Recovery
All are NTFS. I installed 11.1 from DVD shrinking the main Vista partition to make room. On the latest iteration, I have these partitions:
sda4 - w95 Extended sda5 - /boot sda6 - / sda7 - swap sda8 - /home
Everything runs fine until it tries to install GRUB:
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,3) failed Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,4) failed Running "install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage1 hd(0,3) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst" failed
Error 22
I have tried Repair to no avail. I can boot into Rescue mode and manually mount /boot and root and everything is there and looks fine. I found an article on this forum archive that says to uncheck everything but the MBR option but I never see that screen.
If I could find my 11.0 DVD I would use that and then upgrade. (I had to do this on an old desktop.)
Meanwhile, I suspect this has something to do with trying to write to both sda4 and sda5 but I am NO GRUB guru.
Any idea as to what is wrong and how I can recover from it short of finding my 11.0 media?
Thank you, Lucky Leavell In fact I would take 11.1's Grub installation as a BUG(which should now happen to a GM release verision, guys should be more Hard : ) ) way back,I always got problem on its grub installation, it chooses to not boot from MBR (maybe take care about the IBM laptops, I dont need this). so, what I do then ? after fresh installation, I use RESCURE mode to boot, and then, mount the /boot partition, there should be a file "mbr_backup" or so, use dd if=/pathtombr_backup/mbr_backup of=/dev/sda count=446 bs=1 maybe yours is /dev/hda or what. this would work for you.
I installed 11.0 which worked flawlessly as usual. I think I would agree that 11.1 GRUB is buggy, at least on inital install. It worked fine after UIP (Uograde in Place) to 11.1. Perhaps 11.2 ... Because of this and other issues, my server system will remain on 11.0 at least until 11.2. Hey! It still beats Fedora! Thank you, Lucky Leavell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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