I’m attempting to install Suse 12.1, I already have windows 7 and fedora 16 installed fine, however when trying to install the 64 bit suse I get Grub error 25 read disk error, is there a fix to this problem. Thanks
It’s not clear to me if you have actually installed openSUSE. I assume you have? And that this error is what you see post install?
Can you boot to any of your OS’s?
I get this error during the install, it asks if I want to try again/reconfigure which doesnt work, I just move on installing the remainder of the components. I do not believe the boot loader is ever installed, no I cannot boot to any of my OS’s. Also, it gives a warning before installation begins about the first 128 GB of drive or something like that but it says the error code would be 18 if it is a problem, I’m sorry going on memory from yesterday.
The partition/s where you are trying to install openSUSE, if they are outside the first 128GB of the HD, then they must be in logical partitions which themselves will be inside an extended partition space that must start before the 128GB limit. Otherwise you should not install openSUSE bootloader, and then use Fedora to pick it up and add a boot entry for it to the Fedora grub.
You can get to windows or Fedora by booting up SuperGrubDisk and it should find and boot those OS’s
Once in Fedora become su - (or use sudo if you are in the sudo list) and do
update-grub
grub-install /dev/sda
Before I read your response I reinstalled fedora, and I can boot to all of my OS’s except suse it is listed in the fedora bootloader, however when I select it my monitor just displays a message about changing the input timing, those problems seem unrelated. So I booted into fedora and attempted to run the code you provided, but it returns command not found. Do I still need to use SuperGrubDisk, should I install suse again and then try to add the boot entry?, thanks
Try SUSE again
Just don’t install a bootloader
You’ll need to run
update-grub in Fedora after installing SUSE
On 2011-11-19 05:46, quietthought wrote:
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> I’m attempting to install Suse 12.1, I already have windows 7 and fedora
> 16 installed fine, however when trying to install the 64 bit suse I get
> Grub error 25 read disk error, is there a fix to this problem. Thanks
25 : Disk read error
This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to
probe or read data from a particular disk.
Verify the disk(s). Run a surface test, for example the long test in smartctl.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I can’t even install suse anymore something is wrong with the graphics or something the installation screen is off center, I have to move the mouse all the way to the right to reach the remainder of the screen on the left. When I continue with the installation as is the weird screen problems are present on the desktop, I have burned multiple copies of suse both 32 and 64 bit all exhibit the same problem, I used the same drive on my laptop to burn both the suse and fedora but I will try smartctl anyway. When doing the triple boot on my laptop I use the order windows,fedora, then suse folowed by updating grub which finds the fedora partition, however if I’m not going to install bootloader for suse installation should I install suse then fedora. thanks
Here is my fdisk output from within fedora maybe I just have things setup in a silly way
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcb59cf0b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 209712509 104856223+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 209712510 419425019 104856255 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 419425020 1677716144 629145562+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 1677716145 3907024064 1114653960 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1677716208 2516582249 419433021 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 2516582313 2936007269 209712478+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda7 2936007333 3355432289 209712478+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda8 3355432353 3774857309 209712478+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda9 3774857373 3825188954 25165791 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda10 * 3825189018 3846153779 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 3846153843 3867118604 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 3867118668 3888083429 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/sda13 3888083493 3907024064 9470286 83 Linux
Installing SUSE first, then Fedora might make it easier for you.
But you seem to be really struggling here
And as I said, SUSE grub is difficult where the install is beyond the 128GB limit
Fedora should be OK with it.
On 2011-11-20 04:26, caf4926 wrote:
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> Installing SUSE first, then Fedora might make it easier for you.
> But you seem to be really struggling here
> And as I said, SUSE grub is difficult where the install is beyond the
> 128GB limit
> Fedora should be OK with it.
This is not the 128 limit, that gives a different error.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I decided to try to install 11.4 without the bootloader , which worked, but after the installation it said the GUI was not installed either because of a minimal option which I did not choose or my video card is not supported. Oh well I guess i don’t need to have suse on this desktop, maybe when I get time over the holidays I’ll try again, thanks for the help everyone.
Regarding error 25, if you do try again, I suggest you create a separate boot partition for openSuse, say, 100mb using ext4. Fedora should be able to see that after you update grub. The 125 gb warning really doesn’t apply to most modern drives. My boot partition for openSuse is about 800gb over that limit. Good luck!
On 2011-11-22 05:16, DemocritusJr wrote:
> The 125 gb warning
He is not getting that warning. He gets a read/write error.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I have the same error and warring about 128 Gb. I have WD 2TB. Partitions: 200 GB Primary Active NTFS, 1400Gb Primary NTFS, then Extended - 1Gb - swap, 34 GB ext4 - root, and 100+ Gb ext4 - home. I tried to install bootloader to MBR (setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0) (hd0,5)) and have error 25. I tried to install Kubuntu instead of OpenSuse and grub installed with no error and works fine, but i need OpenSuse. Is there any way to fix this error? I’ve no internet on this machine, only 2 LiveCD (Kubuntu 11.10 and OpenSuse KDE 12.10). I tried to install OpenSuse without bootloader, then load Kubuntu from LiveCD, chroot to OpenSuse but don’t know how to fix grub. Need help
I suggest you use SuperGrubDisk to boot Ubuntu
Then do
update-grub
grub-install /dev/sda
caf4926, thanks. Somebody know about the bugreport for this bug in Suse Installer? (I tried to install 11.4 and it has the same error in installer)
It’s not a bug
Did you try what I said?
On 2011-11-23 08:36, Neraverin wrote:
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> I have the same error and warring about 128 Gb. I have WD 2TB.
The error 25 and the 128 GB warning are different errors. Post a new thread.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)