Cannot install 11.2 correctly

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Hi all,

I have a 10.3 workstation that I would like to upgrade to 11.2.

I install a new HD for this, then proceed to install 11.2. The installation goes fine, but on reboot at end of install, computer says that it “Cannot find Active Partition”

I am presuming that it might be the ext4 file extension.

The computer is an Intel core2duo 2.5 gig CPU with 2 gig of RAM on an intel desktop motherboard & using SATA hd’s.

What can I do to install this correctly?

10.3 & 11.0 runs fine on it right now.

Thanks,

Heeter

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Possibly if you have added 11.2 to Grub from an earlier version. If so you may solve the problem by installing Grub from 11.2 to access all three distros.

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Sorry Bud, misunderstood me.

I am trying to install 11.2 onto a fresh new HD.

I am using 10.3 on a existing HD, which I remove to install 11.2. I am mentioning 10.3 and 11.0, just to let know that these are running fine now.

Heeter

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You need to toggle the bootable flag on the partition that contains /boot. This is simple if you know your way around fdisk.

  • Boot from a live Linux CD/USB
  • Open a terminal and ‘su -’ to root
  • execute “fdisk /dev/sda”
  • enter “p” to print the partition table (likely you will not see an asterisk in the boot column of any partion)
  • enter “a”
  • enter the number of the partition that contains /boot
  • enter “w”
  • reboot
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Hey Thanks Unamanic,

Will this always have to be done from now on? Or is it because of just my setup?

I would think that this issue should be resolved, if it is a generic issue.

Thanks

Heeter

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I’ve seen this issue before on Fedora when I purchased a new hard drive. You likely won’t experience it again unless you get a new hard drive now that an active/boot partition on the drive.

In any event, you probably should report it as a bug against the installer at https://bugzilla.novell.com/

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Thanks again, Unamanic

This is a fresh-out-of-the-wrapper 500Gig HD that I am trying to install it onto. If I understand you correctly, if I am using a new HD, I will see this?

Hmmm, oh well.

Thanks

Heeter

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But are there other HD’s connected?

fdisk -l
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No, just this 500Gig one.

Thanks Caf,

Heeter

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What partitioning did you make?

Tell me what you can…

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My understanding of forum traffic when I saw it on Fedora is that it depended on how HD manufacturer configured the drive prior to shipping it. Did setting the bootable flag solve the problem?

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Hi Caf,

I used whatever the automatic partitioning selected.

It installed great, and worked great up until the first reboot after complete install was done.

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I wonder, was this an updated install?

What to do is difficult to say without info:

A live CD like Parted Magic can help here. Google for it. Here is a guide to using it
Using Parted Magic an Introduction - openSUSE Forums

Let us see

fdisk -l

If you mount the root partition and post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst

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Do you mean that it took updates after it installed?

Yes I do that, that is the first thing I always do after a fresh install. Come to think of it, the updates were crapping out during the update, like the connection to the update repo was cut off.

I don’t have the workstation here, it is at my office. Will post what you ask tomorrow. Will let you know tomorrow Unamanic

Heeter

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From what you describe, my advice would be re-install. It sounds like your downloaded updates might have been corrupted.

Then when you get to the desktop for the first time, open a su terminal and run

zypper lp

then

zypper patch

This should install only patches, which fixes some bugs from the original release. It may help as there was a bug affecting network connections which may have had a part in your 1st attempt at install and update.
Then reboot and if you get back to the desktop, try a full update.

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Okay Thanks Caf,

I will try that tomorrow.

Thanks, will post tomorrow my results.

Heeter