Hey guys, I’m obviously new here and still pretty new to Linux let alone OPENSuse, but I will try to provide as much information as possible.
It started when I wanted to dual boot Windows 7 and Opensuse off of my netbook (No DVD/CD drive) I tried install suse from an external hard drive and I botched it. I ended up erasing EVERYTHING off of my internal netbook hard drive. Windows and all.
Well, I had a couple of other computers so I studied up and eventually successfully installed OpenSUSE 11.2 on my external hard drive (11.3 being the one that I accidentally erased everything with, so kinda scared of it) and now I want to install openSUSE 11.2 on my internal netbook hard drive.
I can not use disks
I can not use a flash drive (For some reason, even if I make it bootable, it will not load up, this could be because it’s actually a 8GB microSD card that is placed in a USB card reader.)
I can not use an external hard drive because that’s what I’m running suse off of.
I’ve tried reading up on how to install suse on another drive off of the hard drive and I’ve gotten as far as whenever I boot up the netbook with the suse external hard drive connected it will ask to boot into OpenSUSE, the Fail Safe, or to install OpenSuse. When I select to install it it gives me the Error 18 Unknown File system.
I’ve tried formatting the internal hard drive twice. One as NTFS and again as EXT4. Neither seems to effect it other than when it’s ext4 I can open it and it contains a Lost and Found folder.
When I interrupt the boot sequence by pressing c and going to the terminal and I use the root (hd +TAB command it tells me I have a hd0 and a hd1. The hd1 only has 1 partition which is ext4, which I’m assuming hd1 is the internal hard drive (I’m not sure how to check) and the hd0 is the external hard drive, which has three partitions. One with an unknown file system and two with ext4. When I try to enter the set up from the terminal it gives me the same error for any thing I put it (e.g. root (hd0,0) gives the same error as root (hd0,1), or root (hd0,2) and root (hd1,0)
Something like it cannot locate these two files I’m assuming it needs to boot. If anyone finds this relevant I’ll retry it and post the files its missing.
I’ve been searching for awhile and can’t find any threads that can solve my problem. From other threads, however, I have noticed that I should probably include my menu.lst, listed below
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Jan 10 07:23:00 MST 2011
# 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 (hd0,1)/boot/message
##YaST - activate
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.14-0.6
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_Go_2GE7YBFF-0:0-part2 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_Go_2GE7YBFF-0:0-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x317
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.14-0.6
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_Go_2GE7YBFF-0:0-part2 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x317
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop
title Install openSUSE
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/install/linux
initrd /boot/install/initrd
I have also ran the boot info script and received the RESULTS.txt file it generates. Listed below
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
=> Acer 3 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
sda1: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info: Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
sdb1: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info:
sdb2: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: Grub
Boot sector info: Grub 0.97 is installed in the boot sector of sdb2 and
looks at sector 8689286 of the same hard drive for the
stage2 file. A stage2 file is at this location on
/dev/sdb. Stage2 looks on partition #2 for
/boot/grub/menu.lst.
Operating System: Welcome to openSUSE 11.2
"Emerald" - Kernel ().
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/menu.lst /etc/fstab
sdb3: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info: Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda ___________________ _____________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x67f4eb34
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 63 312,576,704 312,576,642 83 Linux
Drive: sdb ___________________ _____________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107861504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773167 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00025800
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 4,209,029 4,208,967 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 * 4,209,030 46,154,744 41,945,715 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 46,154,745 976,768,064 930,613,320 83 Linux
blkid -c /dev/null: ____________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sda1 c304b4e7-23bd-4b21-83bc-17e50fffae06 ext4 test
/dev/sdb1 637777e5-3da0-4feb-9c54-890567e6bcab swap
/dev/sdb2 aa903e8f-1fa6-4716-bc12-426a41720f51 ext4
/dev/sdb3 dfc1c55c-668a-4fdc-89a8-640e7b255a2c ext4
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/sdb2 / ext4 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sdb3 /home ext4 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
=========================== sdb2/boot/grub/menu.lst: ===========================
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Jan 10 07:23:00 MST 2011
# 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 (hd0,1)/boot/message
##YaST - activate
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.14-0.6
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_Go_2GE7YBFF-0:0-part2 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_Go_2GE7YBFF-0:0-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x317
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.14-0.6
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_Go_2GE7YBFF-0:0-part2 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x317
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop
title Install openSUSE
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/install/linux
initrd /boot/install/initrd
=============================== sdb2/etc/fstab: ===============================
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_Go_2GE7YBFF-0:0-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_Go_2GE7YBFF-0:0-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_Go_2GE7YBFF-0:0-part3 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
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
=================== sdb2: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
2.9GB: boot/grub/menu.lst
4.4GB: boot/grub/stage2
2.8GB: boot/initrd
2.8GB: boot/initrd-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop
2.5GB: boot/vmlinuz
2.5GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop
=============================== StdErr Messages: ===============================
mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically
This has really been giving me a lot of trouble. I’d like to be able to use my netbook without shortening the lifespan of my external hard drive (it does not have an external power source). I’ve heard the Linux community is much more helpful than the Windows community, so if anyone could help me I’d very much appreciate it.
