On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Friday, 2009-06-19 at 19:55 -0400, Lucky Leavell wrote:
I have a new Lenovo G530 laptop that came with Vista in three partitions:
1. Vista Preload 2. Main Vista 3. Lenovo Recovery
All are NTFS. I installed 11.1 from DVD shrinking the main Vista partition to make room. On the latest iteration, I have these partitions:
sda4 - w95 Extended sda5 - /boot sda6 - / sda7 - swap sda8 - /home
Where are you installing grub, MBR or sda4? Both problematic, I think.
I always thought the MBR only pointed to /boot but I really never saw the screen where it gave me the choice. sda4 does seem a bit odd since it is a "container" for the extended partitions. BTW, all are ext3. 1. How do I get to where I choose? 2. What should I choose?
Everything runs fine until it tries to install GRUB:
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,3) failed Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" hd(0,4) failed Running "install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage1 hd(0,3) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst" failed
Error 22
22 : No such partition This error is returned if a partition is requested in the device part of a device- or full file name which isn't on the selected disk.
But what caused this and how do I fix it? I found my 11.0 64-bit DVD and am doing a minimal install now. If that doesn't work I may take Felix' suggestion and restore Vista (SOOO tempting to blow it away!) and use its partitioner to resize Vista. I DO get a warning that sda1 does not end on a cylinder boundry though I resized sda2 with the 11.1 YaST. Thank you Lucky Leavell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org