I’m new to openSUSE and after i have installed it I have a little problem with booting…
When I boot from the default option, it just stopped with the message “mounting /usr”, is seems that the errors are "fails to execute etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-sysctl… "
Then I use F5 on Grub and switching the init system back to system v , but it also stopped at some place… “loading drivers…”
systememd option didn’t work, too.
Now, I can only boot the system with the FailSafe option, then I have to type the startx to enter the destop…so annoying
So I want to know how can I boot normally? I have searched in the forum, but the solution changing to systemV doesn’t seem to work.
Here is my menu.lst:
title openSUSE 12.1
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-1.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000528AS_5VP5Z03D-part6 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000528AS_5VP5Z03D-part5 splash=silent quiet showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-3.1.0-1.2-default
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title windows 7
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
There are a few things that come to my mind reading this (but that are not nessecarely important to your problem).
Do you have a special setup of your file systems. It is not the default to have a seperate file system for /usr.
The “failsafe” entry in the Grub menu is mostly to avoid problems with the computer graphics. Could you provide more information about the graphics card?
Do you have this problem right from the beginning. I mean there are a few boots during installation, were they OK?
Are you using a separate /usr partition? If so read the posts by @robopensuse in this thread: Moving /usr to separate partition. I also have been using a separate /usr since the beginning of Linux and I also gave up - had to manually repartition dozens of systems (wasn’t fun). I should add that using a separate /tmp and/or a separate /var is not a good idea either - you might get occasionally “cross device link” problems because /tmp and /var are located on different filesystems. I can confirm the behaviour described in this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/972324.
Well … Linux is not what it used to be… IMO we’re moving a little bit farther away from Unix every day.
> Are you using a separate /usr partition? If so read the posts by
> @robopensuse in this thread: ‘Moving /usr to separate partition’
> (http://tinyurl.com/8rfmvkm). I also have been using a separate /usr
> since the beginning of Linux and I also gave up - had to manually
> repartition dozens of systems (wasn’t fun).
I intentionally created a virtual (VMW player) 12.2 system with a separate /usr partition, worked
seamlessly. Did not try 12.1, though.
> I should add that using a
> separate /tmp and/or a separate /var is not a good idea either - you
> might get occasionally “cross device link” problems because /tmp and
> /var are located on different filesystems. I can confirm the behaviour
> described in this bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/972324.
>
> Well … Linux is not what it used to be… IMO we’re moving a little
> bit farther away from Unix every day.
Indeed.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 “Asparagus” GM (bombadillo))
Sorry about the tags…
1.I indeed have a special setup of my file systems
2.My graphic card is the nvidia gt 240, which is very annoying, but I have installed the driver successfully.
3.The installation is OK( I change the display option to low level to adapt to the graphics card), but I can’t boot normally after that.
ps. I have found a interesting result:
If i enter in the console from the Failsafe mode first and then type reboot in the console, and next time i can boot normally…so strange.
