On 2007/12/29 20:27 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed:
Today I installed a maintenance copy of v10.3 in a formerly unused 10GB of the
What exactly is a "maintenance copy"?
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"
That choice usually only occurs when booting from installation or recovery media. Did you ever remove the DVD from the drive after installing 10.3? Do you see a syslinux message briefly on screen before the Welcome screen?
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?
Assuming it isn't trying to boot from installation media, the only thing I can think of is that it proceeded to additionally put Grub in the MBR instead of just on the / partition, and then included the very unusual additional Grub menu entry in menu.lst "Boot from Hard Disk".
When I undo that, and get the boot sequence right, I will go ahead to the original problem.
The easiest solution for you might be to boot into OS/2 and reinstall standard MBR code with DFSee or LVM.EXE, and at the same time verify that the 0Ah partition is marked as the only active/startable partition in the master partition table. -- Jesus Christ, the reason for the season. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org