I just got done with a netinstall of opensuse. I told it to use the entire disk and it install and did first boot from the net install disc just fine, everything is running great until i try to reboot. Upon rebooting i get, an error message after my bootup screen saying, “Error no bootable partitions, Please insert a boot disc and press any key to boot”. I am able to boot up the system and login by loading up the net install options and going into rescue mode and telling it to boot /dev/sda2 and it loads up just fine. I go into yast and i load up my parititioner to find that there is /boot partition. This isn’t normal i think not 100% sure though. I click on the bootloader config icon and it says, "Due to paritionning no bootloader is available.
List of Partitions:
/dev/sda1 - Linux Swap Swap
/dev/sda2 - Native Linux ext4
It says it can install the bootloader to the mbr, is that an option? I am kinda hestanint to start playing with all these boot options and break my system. I took 3 hours to download and install hate, to have to redo it all over again.
Can anyone help me find a way to make my system boot without the need for rescue mode?
Thanks,
Hoso001
P.S. Yast updates and downloads are superslow i have an 8mb connection and i am only getting about 10 kbs a second, are there any mirrors available? If so how do I change my repo’s to them? Thanks again!
From the installed system
Post the result of
su -
fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
fdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
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: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 625142447 312571223+ ee GPT
cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200BEVT-80A0RT0_WD-WXE1A30V8123-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200BEVT-80A0RT0_WD-WXE1A30V8123-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
linux-wa3d:~ # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Mar 21 15:12:13 EDT 2012
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# For the new kernel it try to figure out old parameters. In case we are not able to recognize it (e.g. change of flavor or strange install order ) it it use as fallback installation parameters from /etc/sysconfig/bootloader
default 0
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
##YaST - activate
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop -- openSUSE 12.1 - 3.1.9-1.4
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.9-1.4-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200BEVT-80A0RT0_WD-WXE1A30V8123-part2 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200BEVT-80A0RT0_WD-WXE1A30V8123-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x317
initrd /boot/initrd-3.1.9-1.4-desktop
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 12.1 - 3.1.9-1.4
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.9-1.4-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200BEVT-80A0RT0_WD-WXE1A30V8123-part2 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x317
initrd /boot/initrd-3.1.9-1.4-desktop
Info as requested,
Thanks,
Hoso001
If your plan is only to use Linux the first article applies
On 2012-03-21 20:56, caf4926 wrote:
>
> caf4926;2450177 Wrote:
>> I think you should read these
>> http://tinyurl.com/85sgkta
>> http://tinyurl.com/8yjy44f
>
> If your plan is only to use Linux the first article applies
He said he told the installer to use the entire disk. As his disk is only
320 GB, how come he has GPT partitioning? He should be using traditional
partitioning, no? Easier.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
He should be using traditional
partitioning, no? Easier.
Correct
But I wondered why
We know nothing else about his system that might tell us why he has GPT