On 12/23/2014 04:50 PM, Moby wrote:
On 12/22/2014 11:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Have you considered using not using GPT? I don't see any point for HDs smaller than the BIOS maximum.
Have you considered not using md devices for /boot and/or swap? The HDs I create md devices from have ordinary (primary) partitions for boot (with EXT2, where I install Grub), and for swap.
Grub2 tries hard to thwart attempts to install to a partition. It's pretty good at it. For 13.2 installations I partition first, then install Grub Legacy, then install openSUSE with *no* bootloader, taboo os-prober, and ensure Grub Legacy is installed. Thanks Felix. Yes, I definitely have no need for GPT and will not use if I end up re-installing. In all honesty I did not even realize the system was using GPT until I started trying to fix grub2.
The reason I like md for swap is to not have a kernel panic if machine is swapping and a swap disk croaks. I am not full sure, but I think in that case one could risk a machine or process crash.
Reason for using md for boot is again to handle disk failure. If a disk croaks and machine has to be rebooted prior to replacing the disk, my hope (never tried it) is that the machine could be booted off the remaining partner of the mirror.
From what you say, is it correct then that you do not use grub2 at all with 13.2?
Barring any ideas presented here on how to move forward, I will follow your recommendations (mostly) and go without GPT, and grub legacy. How do you partition and install grub legacy with no opensuse, and then how do you install opensuse without a bootloader? Are there options in the installer to perform each of these actions?
Thanks again for the ideas.
I have been 'following' this thread but as I am not using a RAID setup I cannot offer help. However, I would suggest that you download and burn to a CD the SYSTEMRESCUECD ( http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage ) which is invaluable when striking problems when installing openSUSE 13.2 and Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed (and, from memory, 13.2) INSIST that the boot goes into an available EXTENDED partition (this is a generalisation and not a given) so you need to check which partition has had the 'boot' flag assigned to it. To check the 'boot' flag, use gparted in SRC: gparted>select a partition>Partition>Manage Flags then delete/assign the flag if it was set incorrectly by the YaST bootloader. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.14.3 & kernel 3.18.1-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org