grub loading... error 22 on fresh DVD install of 13.2 tumbleweed 12/01 (64 bit)

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I have an older ASUS MB (m2a-vm hdmi) without EFI firmware. Opensuse 12.1 was running on it fine. Decided to do a clean install of 13.2 from the latest tumbleweed DVD iso.

There are 3 disks, I am installing on sda. Deleted all partitions on sda, created one 30G ext4 partition for ‘/’ (and swap is on sdc). Bootloader installation on MBR and sda1.

Bootloader install takes a long time (at least couple of minutes) and I know there is a problem there but no error messages. After reboot however, grub menu does not appear and I get error 22. Perhaps the old version of bootloader is still in MBR (and looking for the older partition number).

Any ideas ?

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Yes, looks like it. It could happen if you installed new bootloader in partition without installing generic code in MBR.

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The “install generic code in MBR” and set active flag on boot partition were both checked. I re-installed to make sure.

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Are you sure your BIOS boots from the disk you install openSUSE on?

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Good catch ! That was the problem and now it is fixed. I used btrfs as root partition and that works too, although ext4 appears to lead to a faster boot.