I’m installing from the 64-bit LiveCD, and I’m able to boot just fine. From the desktop I can run the installation just fine - partitioning? great. In fact, the installer runs without a hitch, and then asks me to reboot. Once I reboot, remove the CD, instead of seeing a continuation of the installer, all I see is GRUB - with all my options still from 10.3??? Even though it told me it had formatted the partition that 10.3 was on??? And yes, 10.3 boots just fine and nothing has changed.
Does it matter that the partition that home is installed on has the user? I have to think that the installer is lying to me some how. No formatting, no new kernel. Or maybe LiveCD sets up the swap partition when you install it and then fails to load after reboot?
Actually, the first time I tried it, I left the CD in the tray (duh, I didn’t read the instructions on the final screen) and it just boots into the same menu as the first time booting. So, I ran it again and decided to actually read the instructions and instead of the install I get my exact same GRUB and 10.3 OS.
I didn’t run and md5 through Terminal, but k3b ran it.
Additional info: I have a couple other partitions on another drive. An Ubuntu installation and an NTFS partition from some old Windows data (no win installation though). This is just a backup drive, not really necessary. During the install attempt, YaST had no trouble seeing everything perfectly, which is why I’m so perplexed.
Same here. I had 10.3 installed and tried the update. All went ok, it rebooted with the DVD still inside and I could log on fine. Now when I tried to boot without the DVD in, it would not pass the grub page and sit there … I tried the repair option and it messed up the /etc/fstab switching all the /dev/sdb# disk names to /dev/sda# ! So it would not boot after the repair ! I had to manually rescue the system and edit the fstab…
My root folder is on /dev/sdb2 partition
I tried a grub-install after a chroot on this partition (grub-install hd1,1) and it complains it cannot find the disk !
should there have been a first-run configuration wizard or something? my dvd install and reboot went fine but I did not get the chance to set the hostname during install and now it is something like linux-lzb0 or something (and yes i know i can change it afterwards).
OK - I’m an idiot. This is what happened for me. Though the instructions tell you to remove the disc, in fact, the swap partition which the install needs did not load after I reboot. So…
Let the CD boot again. This time select the option Harddrive, and it will load the swap. Worked like a charm. If you’ve already run through the LiveCD install and haven’t messed with GRUB or partitioning, you most likely can just load up the CD and select Harddrive. Eh, but what do I know.
Yes, it does work ONLY if you leave the Install DVD in ! Kind of a bummer. I tried to install GRUB on the MBR, my root partition (/dev/sdb2) but I CANNOT boot without the Insatll DVD in !
This is not a smooth upgrade ! But I am sure there is a way to solve this.
To summarize, you want to install grub on the master boot record, not your root partition. Don’t install it on any partition it may offer on the hard-drive. Also, it will (mine did at least) try to preserve your 10.3 installation. Since you probably don’t need/want that, delete that partition outta there, and finally, make sure that 11.0 is set to be the default in the boot loader.
This worked for me,Log into your 10.3 as root and in the file manager select show hidden files. THen select all hidden files with a . before the name don’t send to trash select delete and this will get rid of all settings and old cach files from the 10.3 installation. exit and boot with the suse 11 cd configure your partitions being sure not to format /home just mount it, then when creating first user account make it same name as your old 10.3 username. the installation will create all new configs and system files for the home dir and has never failed for me. have fun take care
Here is what I get when I try a grub-install:
It finds all the relevant files and directories but after I try to boot it gets stuck at stage1_5 and does not go on.
It is as if the MBR was not flushed out of that the install is failing. Any ideas ?
suse:/boot # grub-install
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd1,1) (hd1,1)
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage1” exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage2” exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5” exists… yes
Running “embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1,1)”… failed (this is not fatal)
Running “embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1,1)”… failed (this is not fatal)
Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1,1) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst "… succeeded
Done.
grub> quit
I also should mentioned I upgraded my 10.3 on the same partition. I realize now I should have made another partition for 11.0 but I trusted the system ! The 10.2->10.3 upgrade was a breeze.
I also posted my menu.lst earlier but here it is again:
Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Jun 24 21:21:12 CDT 2008
