[opensuse] Problem with grub updating 10.3 -> 11.0
Hello, I've updated a system of mine at work from 10.3 to 11.0, i386. Spanish language. All gone well till the boot loader instalation. It said it could not install it. I've also observed it didn't created any entry for my pre-existing windows XP partition. So when I tried to reboot it didn't work. I've tried repair system and some other tricks but nothing worked. :( Finally the only way to boot was to set manually the boot options in the starting window. I changed the 'vmlinuz-xxxxxx' and 'initrd-xxxxxx' by just 'vmlinuz' and 'initrd' . Here xxxxxx was the old kernel I had installed with old 10.3. Fortunately it worked, but I would like to know if I am the only person with these problems. I've installed a lot of SuSE OS in a lot of systems and this is the first time I had serious problems to boot after update. With the system booted in that form, I tried to use yast2 to repair the boot loader and it said there was an error, but no any explanation. Guillermo -- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv@oxixares.com http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv Ogijares, Granada - SPAIN -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
Hello,
I've updated a system of mine at work from 10.3 to 11.0, i386. Spanish language.
All gone well till the boot loader instalation. It said it could not install it. I've also observed it didn't created any entry for my pre-existing windows XP partition.
So when I tried to reboot it didn't work. I've tried repair system and some other tricks but nothing worked. :(
Finally the only way to boot was to set manually the boot options in the starting window. I changed the 'vmlinuz-xxxxxx' and 'initrd-xxxxxx' by just 'vmlinuz' and 'initrd' . Here xxxxxx was the old kernel I had installed with old 10.3.
Fortunately it worked, but I would like to know if I am the only person with these problems. I've installed a lot of SuSE OS in a lot of systems and this is the first time I had serious problems to boot after update.
I installed 11.0 on a box that has several distros on it. The install went fine, but on the first boot after the install, the machine was stuck at the bios screen, after choosing to boot suse 11. Very odd. I booted with the dvd and did a rescue, repairing the grub install, and afterwards it booted OK. I chalked it up to a fluke with my hardware, but after reading your account, maybe there is more to it. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Joe, El Thursday 19 June 2008 16:52:17 Joe Sloan escribió:
Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
Hello,
I've updated a system of mine at work from 10.3 to 11.0, i386. Spanish language.
All gone well till the boot loader instalation. It said it could not install it. I've also observed it didn't created any entry for my pre-existing windows XP partition.
So when I tried to reboot it didn't work. I've tried repair system and some other tricks but nothing worked. :(
Finally the only way to boot was to set manually the boot options in the starting window. I changed the 'vmlinuz-xxxxxx' and 'initrd-xxxxxx' by just 'vmlinuz' and 'initrd' . Here xxxxxx was the old kernel I had installed with old 10.3.
Fortunately it worked, but I would like to know if I am the only person with these problems. I've installed a lot of SuSE OS in a lot of systems and this is the first time I had serious problems to boot after update.
I installed 11.0 on a box that has several distros on it. The install went fine, but on the first boot after the install, the machine was stuck at the bios screen, after choosing to boot suse 11. Very odd. I booted with the dvd and did a rescue, repairing the grub install, and afterwards it booted OK.
In my case I couldn't repair the grub with the 'repair system'. And as I said, the yast2 boot loader module doesn't work.
I chalked it up to a fluke with my hardware, but after reading your account, maybe there is more to it.
May be, who knows. Guillermo
Joe
-- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv@oxixares.com http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv Ogijares, Granada - SPAIN -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 09:52 -0700, Joe Sloan wrote:
I chalked it up to a fluke with my hardware, but after reading your account, maybe there is more to it.
It could be my report at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400566
-JP
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JP Rosevear
Hello, Finally, today, with more time to analyze the system I've discovered the source of all my problems: The 'yast2-bootloader' and perl-bootloader packages were not update, they were locked. Sure I pressed a wrong button when selecting the actions to resolve conflicting packages. Now is all running fine and fast. Really is a good job done. Congratulations! Guillermo El Thursday 19 June 2008 16:40:38 Guillermo Ballester Valor escribió:
Hello,
I've updated a system of mine at work from 10.3 to 11.0, i386. Spanish language.
All gone well till the boot loader instalation. It said it could not install it. I've also observed it didn't created any entry for my pre-existing windows XP partition.
So when I tried to reboot it didn't work. I've tried repair system and some other tricks but nothing worked. :(
Finally the only way to boot was to set manually the boot options in the starting window. I changed the 'vmlinuz-xxxxxx' and 'initrd-xxxxxx' by just 'vmlinuz' and 'initrd' . Here xxxxxx was the old kernel I had installed with old 10.3.
Fortunately it worked, but I would like to know if I am the only person with these problems. I've installed a lot of SuSE OS in a lot of systems and this is the first time I had serious problems to boot after update.
With the system booted in that form, I tried to use yast2 to repair the boot loader and it said there was an error, but no any explanation.
Guillermo
-- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv@oxixares.com http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv Ogijares, Granada - SPAIN
-- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv@oxixares.com http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv Ogijares, Granada - SPAIN -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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