Trying to breath new life into old laptop and give it dual boot capability openSUSE 13.1 and Windoze 7. I ran into a driver problem with the windoze 7installation so decided to scrap that and revert to XP. I have been using gparted and rescatux to sort out the partitions and all worked well until I last tried to boot into openSUSE. All the login options are there but once password has been entered I get an error message that tells me the system cannot see /.
Looking at the configuration in gparted I see that there are no labels or flags set on either the / or /home partition. There are options available to set these in gparted but neither / nor /home are offered as options in the drop down menu for flag.
At this point I need to improve my understanding of what is required and am I heading in right direction.
Should add this is not mission critical but it would be great to get it right.
Budgie2
On 2015-06-25 10:46, Budgie2 wrote:
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> Trying to breath new life into old laptop and give it dual boot
> capability openSUSE 13.1 and Windoze 7. I ran into a driver problem
> with the windoze 7installation so decided to scrap that and revert to
> XP. I have been using gparted and rescatux to sort out the partitions
> and all worked well until I last tried to boot into openSUSE. All the
> login options are there but once password has been entered I get an
> error message that tells me the system cannot see /.
Wait. You get a login prompt and password? Then booting is not an issue.
Unless you set a password for grub, or you went for an encrypted system.
> Looking at the configuration in gparted I see that there are no labels
Labels are not necessary, but I always define them.
> or flags set on either the / or /home partition.
I don’t know what you mean by flags :-?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))