-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hans de Faber wrote:
Hi listmates,
Since I installed some milestones I can no longer boot the partition I want. I wanted to the view the progression in OpenSuse and I had a free partition so lets have a look. My separate boot-partition is part2 the free partition was partition 3. I installed on part3 milestone 6 with its own boot directory in the rootdir.
Now my system boots always from part 3 and I can't change that. So I start reading http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub
I discovered that I have a generic MBR The doc above tells me: any generic MBR will load a stage1 from the first block of a primary partition marked as "active" or "bootable", as long as there is exactly one such primary partition.
Parted shows me:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 26.8GB 26.8GB primary ntfs , , , , , , , , , type=07, , 2 26.8GB 27.1GB 206MB primary ext3 boot, , , , , , , , , type=83, , 3 27.1GB 53.9GB 26.8GB primary ext3 , , , , , , , , , type=83, , That partition 2 has the bootflag.
Thats nice and correct, next step is menu.lst on part2. ##YaST - generic_mbr gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message ##YaST - activate This tells me the gfxmenu comes from hd0,1 thats also correct.
But then things go wrong, I get the menu of part3 hd0,2.
Questions:
1 how is this possible ? 2 How can I set the boot back to partition 2
All idea's are welcome, hans What does HD0,1 say in /boot/grub/menu.lst for the booting? It could be set to HD0,2 and that could be your problem. I had a similiar problem with grub on SuSE 11.1
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