I did an upgrade from the DVD and now I no longer see a grub menu or desktop. I can only login via console with the green openSUSE background. I booted to a KDE live CD I have to post this. The funny thing is I looked at boot and grub all the appropriate files seem to be there.Hoping it’s something simple. My Desktop is KDE4.
Do you know how to mount, locate and post a copy of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file? While there can be more than one problem, not seeing a boot menu says something could be wrong about the file configuration settings in this menu. You would do this from the live disk. You may be able to find the partition in the “My Computer” icon of the LiveCD.
Thank You,
If you don’t see a menu then the time out has been set to 0. Grub must be there and functional to have the boot at all.
No desktop may indicate a video driver problem. Tell us the video card or chip.
After some investigation It looked like menu.lst had the wrong hard drive listed. Running startx yielded Failed to load module “nvidia” (module does not exsist,0)
No drivers avalible
Fatal Server error:
No screens found
Xinit failed /usr/bin/xorg is not setuid
So I am guessing that I will have to reinstall my video drivers from console oh what joy.
Here are my menu.lst and device.map
Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Nov 16 12:28:07 CST 2011
THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
For the new kernel it try to figure out old parameters. In case we are not able to recognize it (e.g. change of flavor or strange install order ) it it use as fallback installation parameters from /etc/sysconfig/bootloader
default 0
timeout 20
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
##YaST - activate
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title Desktop – openSUSE 12.1 - 3.1.0-1.2
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-1.2-desktop root=/dev/sda2 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EARX-00PASB0_WD-WMAZA6026378-part2 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EARX-00PASB0_WD-WMAZA6026378-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts 16 bits (mode 0x314) 16 bits (mode 0x303) 16 bits (mode 0x305) vga=0x317
initrd /boot/initrd-3.1.0-1.2-desktop
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title Failsafe – openSUSE 12.1 - 3.1.0-1.2
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-1.2-desktop root=/dev/sda2 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x314
initrd /boot/initrd-3.1.0-1.2-desktop
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title Windows 7
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
(hd2) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EVDS-63U8B0_WD-WCAV55510204
(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EARX-00PASB0_WD-WMAZA6026378
(hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3120827AS_5MS043FG
(hd3) /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD80_0JD-32HKA0_DA91555513FF-0:0
Also I do not see any kind of screen until the green console logon screen I have a digital monitor and I think that might be from not having the video drivers installed correct me if i am wrong. Thanks for the quick reply’s and help. I think one of the main reasons to stick with a distro is the community.
So this is a curious message to get on a “new” install of openSUSE: “After some investigation It looked like menu.lst had the wrong hard drive listed. Running startx yielded Failed to load module “nvidia” (module does not exsist,0)”
openSUSE does not load nVIDIA by itsself. You may indeed need to use the kernel command: nomodeset if you have nVIDIA hardware. Here is a pointer to loading the nVIDIA driver the hard way: Installing the nVIDIA Video Driver the Hard Way - Blogs - openSUSE Forums
You could download the driver with the LiveCD, but I would try nomodeset on reboot and uninstall nVIDIA if you really did an upgrade.
Thank You,
Thanks. Gonna try your bash script that should do it from run level 3 hopefully this will work because i don’t see a grub screen or the first suse boot so no real way to know when to press 3. Gonna give it a go and see what happens. Thanks again.
Thanks James your script worked great. I am now back in my desktop I can’t thank you enough for your help.