12.3 install issues

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

I updated a winXP/OpenSuse 12.2 box [64bit].
After install the WinXP entry is no longer in the boot menu ==> how can I get this back ?

Secondly after the post install updates and a reboot, OpenSUse no longer boots into KDE (or whatever ?). It shows the black screen with the lizard in the green tree.
Pressing escape in order to see boot messages, doesn’t do anything.

Any suggestions ?
Anyone else running into this problem

EDIT : recovery mode version still proceeds into KDE

EDIT 2 : getting winXP back in the list ==> YAST ==> bootloader ==> grub2 options => tick ‘probe foreign OS’
but still no boot into kde in the regular (non recovery mode)

#2

This might be a result of the ‘nomodeset’ option. What is your graphics card and driver? Did you previously install any proprietary driver rpms?

EDIT 2 : getting winXP back in the list ==> YAST ==> bootloader ==> grub2 options => tick ‘probe foreign OS’
but still no boot into kde in the regular (non recovery mode)

I am glad you sorted that issue out.

#3

If Windows XP is still there and works, use my bash script to find and add back in the menu command:

GNU Grub2 Command Listing Helper with --help & Input - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

#4

it is a geforce card, in yast one can see that the drivers are installed, but in the nvidia settings panel it claims nothing present (I suggests to run a script in order to have the X conf being set).

#5

I use nvidia from
Index of /repositories/home:/Lord_LT:/drivers/openSUSE_12.3

The normal nvidia repo was mucked up when I installed
I have not checked it again yet

#6

when should one use the gfx02 or the gfx03.
The latter one is at 310, which I think has some serious improvements (driven from steam ) ?

#7

On 03/14/2013 06:26 PM, killerbot pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> when should one use the gfx02 or the gfx03.
> The latter one is at 310, which I think has some serious improvements
> (driven from steam ) ?

I would add the Nvidia repo and let the system install what works for
your card.

Ken

#8

When I installed the NVIDIA driver it chose GFXO2 but I have a older card a 6800+ so I accepted that one . think the O3 is for new cards only a year or 3 old mine is like 5 years old and I bought it near the end of production for that series

It would be nice to have a chart on that though

#9

Could anyone point me on how to manually add Win boot login in grub menu?
Yast bootloader is getting stuck with reading partitioning, same goes for grub2cmd. (been happening for a while now, but never got permanently stuck, just reading for 10 mins, not it won’t even continue. It seems to be a physical problems with HDDs)
Also, the first time I ran 12.3 on GNOME, restarted into KDE and managed to run the bootloader, but not since I closed it and logged out then.

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 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: 0x3f513f50

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 208898047 104345600 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 208898048 315394047 53248000 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda4 315394048 625139711 154872832 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5 208900096 315394047 53246976 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 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: 0x2fb66cf7

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 4208639 2103296 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 46153728 976773119 465309696 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 4208640 46153727 20972544 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 4210688 46153727 20971520 83 Linux

Thanks.

#10

Lets just check

open a terminal and do

su -
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg



grub2-install /dev/sda
#11

Be sure to use your mouse to copy and paste everything or you’ll get it wrong

#12

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Generating grub.cfg …
Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-3.7.10-1.1-desktop
done

grub2-install /dev/sda

/usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: Sector 32 is already in use by the program FlexNet'; avoiding it. This software may cause boot or other problems in future. Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track. /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: Sector 33 is already in use by the program FlexNet’; avoiding it. This software may cause boot or other problems in future. Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track.
Installation finished. No error reported.

Again, everything worked prior to the update.

#13

You jumped in on a thread. I didn’t see any detail of what you had before (openSUSE what?) Updated how?
What windows version?

#14

Yeah, sorry. Installed W7 64bit on the 320gb drive, then installed openSUSE 12.2 on the 500gb drive with both /root and /home there. I’ve had problems with HDDs as in partition managers (Win, openSUSE ones) reading partition table for about 10 minutes. This worked as GRUB2 had 3 menus, openSUSE 12.2, openSUSE fallback and W7 boot entry.

I updated from DVD this morning to 12.3 and the first time I booted, there were only openSUSE and openSUSE advanced mode entries,
then I proceeded to logged to GNOME session, then logged out and logged to KDE session and managed to get Yast > Bootloader on but couldn’t find right away what to do, clicked Ok, waited to close the window, logged out and when I logged from GNOME again I couldn’t access the bootloader option in YAST (gets stuck on 33%)
(yes, I installed KDE pattern on GNOME3 base)

Thanks.

#15

Also, forgot to add, GRUB2 chainloaded W7’s bootloader which had option for W7 and a dummy choice (experimented with something, had no parameters)

#16

Try this
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Grub2_Project/grub2-set.png

#17

Yeah, but for some reason I can’t get to Bootloader Options in YAST, gets stuck on 33% of loading time (I said that in the post above)
I’m backing up data now and in a couple of hours will do a fresh install without any settings. (if bootloader doesn’t work by then)

Thank you anyway!

#18

According to output you provided, everything still works. As for hanging YaST2 - check BIOS if you have floppy controller and try to disable it. It was known to cause issues in the past.

#19

This fixed pretty much everything. After disabling floppy, I turned YAST Bootloader on and turned on OS probing which fixed everything.

Great thanks everyone!

#20

have been uninstalling nvidia drivers in yast, problem still remains.
Recovery mode : OK
regular mode : last thing presented on console is : [OK] Reached Target Graphical Interface