** Reply to message from Felix Miata
I'm back now from my absence, and have attended to some of the crises that have popped up while I was away. I'm ready to attack the matter of my failed update to opensuse v10.3. What I have in mind is to install a maintenance copy of v10.3 into part of the now unused space on my HD, and to use it to retrieve the contents of the /home directory from the failed update. See below my plans for what to do after that. I would be very happy for any comments.
Today I installed a maintenance copy of v10.3 in a formerly unused 10GB of the HD. That installation seems to work properly, but I don't understand why the boot sequence is as it is: The maintenance copy has but one partition in addition to SWAP. In setting up the installation, I was very careful to arrange that GRUB be installed in the root partition, rather than the MBR. After setting the configuration and before confirming actual installation, I verified that this was the case. I expected therefore that the boot sequence would be: OS/2 Boot Manager, followed by whatever line of BM is chosen. What actually happens is as follows: 1) openSuSE (maintenance partition) Welcome screen, with its list of choices 2) I choose "Boot from Hard Disk" 3) OS/2 Boot Manager 4) (after appropriate choice) openSuSE (maintenance) flash screen In other words, the installation has created its own boot manager BEFORE the OS/2 Boot Manager. What has happened? How to correct this? When I undo that, and get the boot sequence right, I will go ahead to the original problem. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel In politics, the most important thing is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you have it made. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org