I am having problems Loading OpenSUSE 11.04_amd64 after Installation. I Dual Boot with Windows (on dev/sda) and Linux (on dev/sdb). I have been using Ubuntu_amd64 for a while and had decided to give other Linux distros a try. I tried Debian but I ended up downloading and installing a bare-bone version and I couldn’t go anywhere with it as, I am a Linux noob.
I have now downloaded and tried to install OpenSUSE 11.04. Installation was smooth but OpenSUSE will not boot. I get a black screen which says Grub Error and something like ‘file not found’.
I must be installing GRUB wrongly… and I need the forums’ help.
This is how my /dev/sdb looks:
/dev/sdb1 - 500 GB
/dev/sdb2 - 200 GB
/dev/sdb3 - 35 GB EXT4 /
/dev/sdb4 - Extended
/dev/sdb5 - 194 GB EXT4 /home
/dev/sdb6 - 2 GB SWAP
and this is how I set up the BOOT:
Boot Loader type : GRUB
Status Location : Root “/”
Change Location :
*MBR Disabled
*Boot from “/” Enabled
Also I chose /dev/sdb for GRUB installation device.
My Desktop:
Intel Desktop Board DG45ID
Integrated Graphics
Ram 2GB DDR2
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0ghz
Please assist me in loading OpenSUSE 11.04 amd 64
I couldn’t edit after 10 mins.
I just need to add that I have GNOME CD.
Please boot from the liveCD as root and run in gedit
fdisk -l
and navigate to ‘/boot/grub/menu.lst’ of the installed openSUSE system, copy and paste its contents, and the output of the above command here.
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fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x12a57f63
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 102402047 51200000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 102402048 204802047 51200000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 204802048 976773119 385985536 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000be217
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 1048578047 524288000 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 1048578048 1468008447 209715200 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 1468008448 1541408767 36700160 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 1541408768 1953523711 206057472 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1541410816 1945133055 201861120 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 1945135104 1953523711 4194304 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I am unable to access menu.lst. I need permissions and I don’t exactly know how to boot as root
If you set the sdb HD to the first boot device in BIOS
Does it boot now?
It might not because there is no boot flag on sdb3, your root partition