Hello,
I tried to install Opensuse 12.1 with GRUB bootloader but couldn’t to do so (GRUB stage 2 error 17: cannot mount the partition). Someone advised me to install it with LILO bootloader and change it to GRUB after installation. Now, after installation my laptop is booting directly into windows 7 and doesn’t show any option to choose between windows and openSUSE. Has LILO been unable to override the MBR written by windows 7? How should i rectify the problem?
I am using Dell N5010 Inspiron with core i5 and 4GB RAM.
Earlier, during installation, i did get a message stating that the partitioning tool cannot read the existing partition table and would only be able to use the existing partitions. The installation went smooth till it tried to install GRUB whence it popped out the error 17 as i mentioned above. Not able to find a solution, i installed openSUSE with LILO and the system worked till I did not restart after the first boot.
Thanks a lot in anticipation.
-Harsh
Who gave you such an advice? It doesn’t sound very realistic. … unless she meant “ELILO” (not “LILO”) and grub2-efi (not Grub) … but then it would be a totally different story.
Anyway… You’ll be asked to boot from a linux live CD, open a terminal an post the output of the following command:
sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
That will be the first step.
On 2012-07-22 08:06, harsh4u549 wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I tried to install Opensuse 12.1 with GRUB bootloader but couldn’t to
> do so (GRUB stage 2 error 17: cannot mount the partition). Someone
> advised me to install it with LILO bootloader and change it to GRUB
> after installation.
???
> Earlier, during installation, i did get a message stating that the
> partitioning tool cannot read the existing partition table and would
> only be able to use the existing partitions.
That’s the important clue. Find out why. We need to see the output of “fdisk -l” inside
codetags, from a Linux live CD.
Posting in Code Tags - A Guide
My wild guess is that you have a GPT setup.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Thanks for your reply Flux Capacitor Penguin and Robin Listas…
I booted my laptop with Ubuntu Live CD 10.10 and opened the terminal and run the command as posted above “sudo /sbin/fdisk -l”…
Following details were displayed in the terminal window…
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x10000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 18 144553+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 19 19 823 42 SFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 19 1308 10360832 42 SFS
/dev/sda4 * 1308 14152 103166976 42 SFS
Kindly guide what to do next…
It’s an issue with the file system used by your Windows installation. It should be NTFS and not SFS. Linux can not handle this file system. Installing LILO rather than Grub is not going to help. So please don’t! Wait for a Windows user, who can explain to you how to convert SFS into NTFS in order to be able to create partitions for Linux.
On 2012-07-22 15:36, please try again wrote:
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> It’s an issue with the file system used by your Windows installation. It
> should be NTFS and not SFS. Linux can not handle this file system.
> Installing LILO rather than Grub is not going to help. So please don’t!
> Wait for a Windows user, who can explain to you how to convert SFS into
> NTFS in order to be able to create partitions for Linux.
I have no idea what SFS is. Wikipedia list these hits:
Computers
SAN file system
Scalable File Share, a storage system created by Hewlett-Packard
Self-certifying File System, a decentralized network file system
Smart File System, journaling a filesystem used on Amiga computers
SquashFS, a compressed file system for Linux operating systems
Simple Features, an OpenGIS standard for storage of geographical data
Some of those are in fact designed for Linux. :-?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
In Windows land SFS is more or less the same as LVM., a way to make multiple partitions look like one, but Windows propritary.
On 2012-07-22 16:46, gogalthorp wrote:
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> In Windows land SFS is more or less the same as LVM., a way to make
> multiple partitions look like one, but Windows propritary.
Yes, but the name in Windows is dynamic partitioning, not SFS. Why does fdisk says “SFS”, what
does that stand for? Or is it that fdisk doesn’t recognize what it is, and gives that type
mistakenly? Or is it that MS appropriated themselves of a partition ID that was already used by
the real SFS type?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2012-07-22 17:26, harsh4u549 wrote:
> 3. Partition magic shows only one partition as “Dynamic Disk”. What
> does that mean?
I think that one partition is assigned the whole disk and divided in parts.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
AFAIK thee are tools and tricks to convert SFS to NTFS. Some people have reported resizing the partition under Windows and changing the partition ID from 0x42 to 0x7 (here for example, linux.file-systems.ntfs.devel - Re: HOWTO: Convert a Windows dynamic drive to a simple drive - msg#00033 - Recent Discussion OSDir.com). But this is Windows stuff, and I’m not going to give advice about Windows.
On 2012-07-22 23:56, please try again wrote:
>
> AFAIK thee are tools and tricks to convert SFS to NTFS. Some people
> have reported resizing the partition under Windows and changing the
> partition ID from 0x42 to 0x7 (here for example,
> ‘linux.file-systems.ntfs.devel - Re: HOWTO: Convert a Windows dynamic
> drive to a simple drive - msg#00033 - Recent Discussion OSDir.com’
> (http://tinyurl.com/bu345yb)). But this is Windows stuff, and I’m not
> going to give advice about Windows.
Notice the comment in that post about the number of partitions. That trick only works in a
special situation.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)