I have an old dell poweredge server. And need to install server on it. The issue I have is the install appears to go fine. Then when it restarts and boots grub it’s unable to locate sda1 or sda2.
I have tried having to write the mbr. I’ve tried both kde and gnome just to see if eather would allow me to get past this point.
I have searched the forums however I’ve been unable to locate any information on this issue.
Thanks in advance.
Are you using RAID
Better without
When you see the Grub screen, press escape to exit the gfx menu. Then press “c” to get a Grub shell and type:
find /boot/vmlinuz
and/or
find /boot/grub/stage2
Do you get any result?
You can exit the shell with esc, select the line booting openSUSE in the menu and press e to edit it, then press e again to edit the kernel line and change the root device if needed. By default it should not use device names but by-id or by-uuid links instead.
If it’s a raid, you need a separate boot partition - although I don’t remember if it’s still needed. And the root device in the kernel line could look like:
root=/dev/md2
for example.