I get this error when I boot opensuse default and fail safe. It takes me to a console log in, which works. This happened after new kernel install in Linux Mint, which is unbootable atm. I can boot windows, bsd but no Linux.
Are you using grub 2 to boot with then?
avenuemax wrote:
> I get this error when I boot opensuse default and fail safe. It
> takes me to a console log in, which works. This happened after new
> kernel install in Linux Mint, which is unbootable atm. I can boot
> windows, bsd but no Linux.
is “Can not enter home directory” the error you get?
when does that come up?
does it come up and THEN you land at a console prompt to log in?
when you say “which works” do you mean you can log in as yourself, and
do what? (move around inside your /home as yourself, or maybe issue
startx from the prompt—what??)
are either of your Linux partitions full, or very near full?
have you logged into KDE/Gnome/etc as root and moved around inside
your home?
from the console log in which works please replace [you] with your
user ID below and type/enter this:
ls -hal /home/[you]/.*authority
you will get an output something like this
-rw------- 1 [you] users ... /home/[you]/.ICEauthority
-rw------- 1 [you] users ... /home/[you/.Xauthority
copy that output back to this list, please…
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Carl,
As per your suggestion, I installed grub2 and updated grub by
sudo update-grub & sudo grub-install dev/hda
It worked till yesterday when I decided to update Mint and later it got screwed.
My partitions are not full. I can boot windows and bsd normally. The error comes at the time of booting suse. When I choose to log in fail-safe I get an error
Can not enter home directory using /.
&
Kstarupconfig4 does not exist or fails
&
The error code is 3
ls -hal /home/david/.*authority
returns no such file or directory.
I get Grub error 13 when I choose to boot Mint.
Did you try to re-install grub 2 with the Mint cd
Mint should then boot, then run sudo update-grub from Mint
The suse issue may be more complicated, as I suspect even if you get Mint booting - you’ll still get this same error with suse.
Carl,
thanks for the link. will this fix suse boot issue. suse boot issue is more important for me than booting and fixing mint. i am all set to kick out grub2 and install fedora over mint partition.
I don’t think it will fix the SUSE issue.
If you install Fedora it’s more than likely it will switch the boot flag to it’s root and grub to MBR. I installed in one time and asked it not to install a bootloader but it still switched the boot flag on me, so watch it. I just booted Parted M and changed the flag and it was fine. I then wrote code to menu.lst in SUSE to boot Fedora
Your SUSE problem will need some investigating. Possibly we need to see /etc/fstab
and : fdisk -l
I guess fstab is the issue. i am on other desktop atm. will post fdisk later.
@Carl, here is fdisk
mint@mint ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007d4a8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5222 41945683+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 9139 33691 197221972+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 5223 9138 31454829 a5 FreeBSD
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 * 33692 38913 41945653 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 36042 36563 4192965 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 33692 34631 7550487 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 34632 36041 11325793+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 36564 38913 18876343+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
I ran boot info script in order to examine the whole thing, here is the output -
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Acer 3 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
=> Syslinux is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
sda1: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda2: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
sda3: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ufs
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
sda4: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: Grub
Boot sector info: Grub 0.97 is installed in the boot sector of sda4 and
looks at sector 541796697 of the same hard drive for
the stage2 file. A stage2 file is at this location on
/dev/sda. Stage2 looks on partition #6 for
/boot/grub/menu.lst.
sda5: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda6: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Welcome to openSUSE 11.2
"Emerald" - Kernel ().
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/menu.lst /etc/fstab
sda7: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
sda8: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Linux Mint 9 Isadora
Boot files/dirs: /etc/fstab
sdb1: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda ___________________ _____________________________________________________
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
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 83,891,429 83,891,367 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 146,801,970 541,245,914 394,443,945 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 83,891,430 146,801,087 62,909,658 a5 FreeBSD
/dev/sda4 * 541,246,039 625,137,344 83,891,306 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 578,998,665 587,384,594 8,385,930 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 541,246,041 556,347,014 15,100,974 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 556,347,078 578,998,664 22,651,587 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 587,384,658 625,137,344 37,752,687 83 Linux
Drive: sdb ___________________ _____________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 261 MB, 261750784 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 998 cylinders, total 511232 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 32 510,974 510,943 7 HPFS/NTFS
blkid -c /dev/null: ____________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 79C332AC3B624E50 ntfs Windows 7
/dev/sda2 0C49EA7C3A69BA10 ntfs Storage
/dev/sda3 ufs
/dev/sda4: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda5 170a48cd-3c79-4614-9c30-90b714d0cb4d swap
/dev/sda6 59ded727-ba4a-4e37-b776-e11f074aa153 ext4
/dev/sda7 c3e5d608-1fbb-4d03-96d2-20be98705cbc ext4
/dev/sda8 4d01404f-4574-48ae-8f84-9472bb36facf ext4
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdb1 6E2C56BA2C567D51 ntfs
/dev/sdb: PTTYPE="dos"
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime)
/dev/sdb1 /media/6E2C56BA2C567D51 fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
=========================== sda6/boot/grub/menu.lst: ===========================
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Jul 19 19:45:09 SGT 2010
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader
default 0
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
##YaST - activate
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part6 repair=1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part5 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x317
initrd /boot/initrd
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part6 showopts apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x317
initrd /boot/initrd
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: other###
title Windows7 Enterprise Edition x64
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: other###
title PC BSD
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
=============================== sda6/etc/fstab: ===============================
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part7 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part8 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part2 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part6 /windows/E ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
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
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part6 /data2 ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part6 /data3 ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part6 /data4 ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320418AS_9VMD0YPT-part6 /data5 ext4 defaults 1 1
=================== sda6: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
279.8GB: boot/grub/menu.lst
277.3GB: boot/grub/stage2
277.9GB: boot/initrd
277.9GB: boot/initrd-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop
279.2GB: boot/vmlinuz
279.2GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop
=============================== sda8/etc/fstab: ===============================
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=4d01404f-4574-48ae-8f84-9472bb36facf / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=170a48cd-3c79-4614-9c30-90b714d0cb4d none swap sw 0 0
=================== sda8: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
311.6GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
311.6GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
311.6GB: initrd.img
311.6GB: vmlinuz
=========================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc =======================
Unknown BootLoader on sda3
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00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
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It shows lots of stuff, how do I get this right.
I’ll have to look at this later, I am busy with work ATM.
I need to know what you are planning as you PM’d me saying you were re-installing.
It’s all a Rat’s nest at first glance and it will take me time to get my head round it.
In the mean time, feel free to take advice offered by others. There are plenty of us that can help.
I prefer a reinstall for BSD (boundary error) and Linux. Installing BSD isnt a problem since I can make it without its boot loader. Need to know what not to do at the time of Grub2 based OS install. I can wait for 2-3 days, please take your time and help me sort out my installs when free.
Thinking about the SUSE issue
A quick glance tells me something doesn’t add up when I compare the menu.lst with fstab
And I’m wondering why you have 2 boot flags, I would expect it only on sda4
OK
So if you are re-installing, just delete it all. The BSD space was grabbed from windows though, so you may need to keep the boot flag on sda1 and fixmbr to boot winders. Get all the partitioning nice and re-allocate the space you free up by deleting everything else.
Install Mint before SUSE, do SUSE last. We can get the boot menu right in SUSE to boot mint after.
Okay, I am cleaning everything and start a fresh.
Well, no offense, I had Irish coffee last night.
Carl,
The two boot flags are due to various chain loaders. I used suse grub to chainload windows and bsd. From windows I installed easybcd as a precaution.
This is just not necessary.
Let me know how you get on.