** Reply to message from Felix Miata
On 2007/10/30 00:50 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed:
When the first reboot happened, I left the DVD in the drive, which I am sure is correct. After the reboot, what came up was the installers main screen, offering the choice of booting from the Hard Disk, Installation, etc. Choosing "Installation" brings me back to the beginning of the upgrade process (language, accept the conditions, etc.), which I do not think is where I want to be. In other words, I appear to have lost the thread of the upgrade process. I hope someone will explain to me why this has happened, and what I can do about it.
Removing the DVD and rebooting causes a black screen to come up, with a prompt like "grub >". In other words, the upgrade process has decided on its own initiative to install GRUB in the Master Boot Sector. This is dirty pool: When I first installed v10..2, I put GRUB into a very small partition all by itself; I did this for a very good reason, and I was allowed to do it, and there is something very wrong with the upgrader/installer moving it about in this way without asking me. I'll fix this, but it should not have happened.
Hi, Felix!!
It appears the correct choice in your case must be to leave the DVD in the drive, but to either do nothing, in which case it will attempt to boot the HD, or to select to boot the HD, and then to nothing more than answer questions until after it finishes booting from the HD and finalizing installation.
The DVD is not in the drive now. I removed it because At boot, the installers screen appeared as expected; I selected "Boot from hard disk"; Black screen with GRUB prompt appeared, because the installer had made its own GRUB in the MBR. I am certain that it did not consult me about doing this. Since it had been behaving as an upgrade, I do not think the question of where to put GRUB would haqve had any meaning.
10.3 is more like a .0 release than any I can remember, mostly because of massive changes to Xorg and video drivers that makes it a poor decision on the part of several distros to have released new versions in the September/October 2007 period, include Mandriva and Ubuntu in addition to OpenSUSE.
You'll probably have to specify your hardware, particularly video, before much in the way of meaningful help can be offered.
Specifying the hardware is very easy: This is an Intel board, 915GAV, with everything on board, specifically the video. There are no cards in the slots. I think I need to bite the bullet, and just make an initial installation. Do you agree? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel Idiotic commercials heard on CNN, #4: "On January 20, the balance of power will change hands." -- for CNN Current Events -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org