I cloned my drive from sdb over Win 10 on sda with Clonzilla. Booted from said drive three times, all good. Wanted to remove Windows bootloader entry so went into Yast under boot options & clicked OK. It said it updated intrd or similar? Now X wont start & hangs at Plymouth forever before dumping to console. F1 displays lots of failed to start services.
I’m kinda thinking I’m screwed & should reinstall? I thought it was confused with two TW installs on two identically sized SSDs so deleted secondary volume with GParted. I can log in fine but terminal commands are not my forte. I tried rebuilding GRUB cfg but it said something about read only.
Managed to boot into read only snapshot but mkinitrd says no, read only filesystem & boot is really slow with a start job for dev-sdb2.device having to complete at 1 min 30 seconds before she’ll even think about booting?!?
First, Tumbleweed is the bleeding-edge version of openSUSE. I generally recommend that a user have a reasonably to very good understanding of Linux and basic problems, better still I think a user should be on the advanced or adventurous edge for Tumbleweed.
That said, there are a number of things you can do to fix your system.
My recommendation, at this point, is to recommend you get the install DVD (I suggest you use Leap 42.2 instead of Tumbleweed, but that is your decision, use the Tumbleweed installer if you wish) and choose the Upgrade option. This will “Upgrade” you (most of the time, this is actually a downgrade, but it makes certain all the versions of the bits and pieces match the installation) to the version on the DVD or USB device.
This should solve numerous problems for you, including setting up Grub2 properly.
Your current main problem is that the drive move has your Grub and the system pointers aimed at the wrong places.
This “Upgrade” should fix all of that.
I suggest you choose not to use the online repos while doing this. Instead, wait until you are up and running, then run the updates.
On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 12:46:01 +0000, gogalthorp wrote:
> You have a 32 bit processor?? If so you must use TW since Leap is not
> supporting 32 bit any more.
Which raises a question: to the best of your info, how long will
Tumbleweed continue to support 32 bit? I’ve got several older 32 systems
(mostly laptops) which seem to do fine with the latest Tumbleweed builds
but I really don’t don’t want to spend a lot of time only to see the
resource go away.
Good question have to ask the developers. It is probably a matter of having contributors help maintain the 32 bit stuff. Remember most of openSUSE is volunteer based. Companies and individuals willing to extend resources to maintain a particular build.
On Wed 08 Feb 2017 09:40:03 PM CST, will honea wrote:
On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 12:46:01 +0000, gogalthorp wrote:
> You have a 32 bit processor?? If so you must use TW since Leap is not
> supporting 32 bit any more.
Which raises a question: to the best of your info, how long will
Tumbleweed continue to support 32 bit? I’ve got several older 32
systems (mostly laptops) which seem to do fine with the latest
Tumbleweed builds but I really don’t don’t want to spend a lot of time
only to see the resource go away.
Hi
AFAIK, the 32bit version is just built… supported is probably a gray
area…
The issue will be 32bit application support being dropped upstream, eg
Firefox. I think it will be a few more years maybe…who knows.
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On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 22:59:18 +0000, malcolmlewis wrote:
> AFAIK, the 32bit version is just built… supported is probably a gray
> area…
>
> The issue will be 32bit application support being dropped upstream, eg
> Firefox. I think it will be a few more years maybe…who knows.
Thanks. I’ve already told everyone that I’m ending my “help line” when I
turn 80 so all I need is a couple of years…
