On 5/29/05, Jack Brooks
I'm running SuSE 9.3 on my 2.4Ghz P4, 1024Mb RAM, 200GB HD, pc.
Last night I was updating some packages via synaptic and the suse apt repositories on ftp.gwdg.de including a lot of updated kde stuff. Synaptic wouldn't run the update because several of the packages weren't signed. As an alternative, I used red carpet to install all of the packages from the cache file where synaptic had downloaded them to. Everything installed fine and I rebooted with no problems. Upon reboot, I downloaded Mplayer and the mplayer plug-in from Packman's site and installed them with red carpet as well. However, when I tried to reboot the splash screen (9.3 default) shows me the command lines and says that it can't find hdb1 or any other partition on my hard drive. I get the grub menu just fine, but when I try to load 9.3 it craps out and tells me it can't find any partitions. I tried doing a repair with the 9.3 dvd, but it also says it can't find any partitions on the hard drive.
I would love to be more specific, but I'm not quite competent enough to do so. I would appreciate whatever help is given.
Thanks in advance
Jack
I can not help with the problem you have, but I have a suggestion about your install problem with unsigned packages. In synaptic you may go in the InternalOptions menu, and there add the option"GPG::Check" and value "false" (all without "s). This will let synaptic to install unsigned packages for the current synaptic session. Cheers, and hope you recover successfully. Sunny