On my dell vostro 3700, in the bootscreen it lists 2 desktops for open suse 11.4 i use the top one due to having everything working fine ( is there a way of eliminating the second desktop listing in the screen without causing a system problem)
If I have properly understood the question, then your description is confusing.
What I think you are seeing is two different boot options. The first one uses the desktop kernel in the normal manner. The second is probably using the desktop kernel in a failsafe boot. In failsafe mode, you will start up in a terminal (command line) session. It is the boot you would use if you are having graphics problem.
You could remove that. Go into Yast → System → bootloader
However, it is a very bad idea to remove that. It is there for emergency use. Incidently, you can also use the Yast bootloader screen to set the default boot. That way, you only have to hit enter to boot to the entry that you normally use.
On 10/23/2011 09:06 PM, TKS1125 wrote:
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> without causing a system problem)
i suggest we see what you have before guessing and suggesting a fix,
please show us the terminal output from
sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
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here is the entry
tim@linux-br0p:~> sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Oct 16 00:44:58 CDT 2011
THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader
default 2
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
##YaST - activate
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.6-0.7
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.6-0.7-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600BEVS-00VAT0_WD-WXH0A79C7610-part2 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600BEVS-00VAT0_WD-WXH0A79C7610-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x314
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.37.6-0.7-default
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe – openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.6-0.7
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.6-0.7-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600BEVS-00VAT0_WD-WXH0A79C7610-part2 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x314
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.37.6-0.7-default
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop – openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.1-1.2
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600BEVS-00VAT0_WD-WXH0A79C7610-part2 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600BEVS-00VAT0_WD-WXH0A79C7610-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x314
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe – openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.1-1.2
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600BEVS-00VAT0_WD-WXH0A79C7610-part2 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x314
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
rootnoverify (fd0)
chainloader +1
i hope this helps i am sorry for the confusion in the first boot screen it lists 2 desktops and 2 failsafes
and find out if the older kernel is actually (still) installed:
rpm -qa | grep kernel
Looks like you have 2 versions of the kernel installed. Not sure why unless you set the configuration to not delete old kernels. Normally with a kernel update the old kernel goes poof unless you set things not to. The file that controls this is /etc/zypp/zypp.conf , the location is the line that starts multiversion =
You can go into Yast and remove the older or newer kernel. I’d keep to the newer and remove the older if the newer works ok. This should also remove the menu item.