I have a hard disk of 1,5 TB with around 13 partitions.The first is primary for Windows XP system, all the others are in an extended partition. Another 5 for windows, then a swap partiton and another 4 for different linux systems, all of course above the 128 GB limit.
The problem must be definitely the grub installation of 11.3, because if I install 11.2 in the same partition (same filesystem ext4, same mountpoints, all settings exactly the same), there is no problem, neither is a problem of installing grub, when I install Mint or Ubuntu in the neighboring partitions (all above 128 GB).
I found a few contributions of users with the same problem, but none with a real solution. In my case it cannot be an old hardware or BIOS, neither can the reason lie outside opensuse 11.3, because why then would 11.2 install in the same partition without problems?
So did you just get the warning or did the actual install not work? For instance, I got the warning during the installation, but no problem with grub actually working.
Hi, thanks for your reply.
This warning arises quite early, when all information is given and just before the installation processes begin.
I can continue the installation until the end. Then shortly before finish a corrsponding warning comes again giving me the choice to change the grub install parameters or not. No matter what changes I make (installing in MBR, in root partition etc.) this message keeps coming. So I can only decline changes. Then the installation finishes.
After reboot the computer hangs because the grub ist not found.
But the opensuse system is otherwise installed correctly. Because if I install afterwards my mint system on the neighboring partition and install and use ITS grub, then it can find the opensuse installation and add it to the mint GRUB.
Then the computer starts (with the “mint” grub of course) and from there booting opensuse is also no problem.
This would be the workaround, but there must be a reason, why the opensuse cannot install its own GRUB properly. The entries in the “menu.lst” from opensuse grub looks ok. And the grub files in /boot/grub/ are there and present.
Is it possible, that an old version of GRUB found its way into the 11.3 edition? It is 0.97, I think, whereas the mint GRUB shows me 1.97.
Yes, but I don’t want to change my partitions, reinstall Windows etc. - and why should I, if even 11.2 and the other systems can install properly.
I’d rather use the GRUB from Mint or give up opensuse entirely, because this is not the first issue, that gives me the impression of Mint or Ubuntu causing less problems.
On 2010-08-06 10:36, enneos wrote:
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> caf4926;2202267 Wrote:
>> I know some users with ‘BIG’ HD’s That use a small sacrificial
>> partition of *ub and let Grub2 control everything. Solves this issue.
>
> Yes, but I don’t want to change my partitions, reinstall Windows etc. -
> and why should I, if even 11.2 and the other systems can install
> properly.
Ignore the warning and try the install. It might work.
And yes, the 0.97 version number is correct.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Yes, thank you. This workaround I already figured out. The installation of Mint afterwards recognizes the opensuse installation and adds it to “its” grub.
Starting opensuse with THIS grub works.
On 2010-08-06 19:06, enneos wrote:
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> Carlos E. R.;2202318 Wrote:
>> On 2010-08-06 10:36, enneos wrote:
>> Ignore the warning and try the install. It might work.
> Unfortunately not. The installation completes, but no start is
> possible.
> (Only via using the grub of another Linux on this harddisk).
>
> But why the h… does the installation of 11.2 work ???
You will need to write a Bugzilla to get an answer from the developers for that one.
I assume that 11.2 was in the very same partitions as 11.3 is now? Same setup?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
On 2010-08-08 22:06, enneos wrote:
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> Carlos E. R.;2202684 Wrote:
>> On 2010-08-06 19:06
>> You will need to write a Bugzilla to get an answer from the developers
>> for that one.
>>
>>
>> I assume that 11.2 was in the very same partitions as 11.3 is now? Same
>> setup?
>>
> Yes, exactly. That’s why, according to logic the error must be in the
> 11.3 installation routine.
To me it looks like a bugzilla matter.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
That use a small sacrificial partition of *ub and let Grub2 control everything. Solves this issue.