Hey everyone. Okay i’m new to OpenSUSe so don’t be too hrd on me. I’ve just done a completely default installation of openSUSE 11 with a GNOME desktop. I have a second hard drive installed for toring movies, music, pictures etc. I can’t find it now. How do i mount it and how do i make the icon for it appear so ican mount it by clicking? Thanks in advance for any help…
Go to yast2 partitioner and see if it’s there.
If you see it click it and click edit and give it a mount point e.g, /Entertainment
Thanks for your help. I tried what you said a few times but then i couldn’t reboot and had to reinstall each time. I don’t get it. This last time i instlled the entire OS on just one partition. Is it better the other way or just a matter of preference?
I seem to be hanging here and there with everything on one partition.
Hi & welcome!
What exactly do you mean by hanging here and there? Does your system go gaga when you have the second disk mounted?
For us to get a better idea of your disk layout, could you post the terminal output of ’ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l ’ ?
I actually went back to Mint for the time being I will come back to OpenSUSE when i have time again to mess with it to make it work
Anyway the problem i was hving seems to e that the mouse pointer actually got to where it just stopped working when the computer finished booting. And when i tried to et a mount point for the secondary hard drive the computer would not boot. Thoe were the only two problems i seemed to be having.
Now when i come bck to trying it again should i follow the default partition setting the installer wants to use? With the three partitions?
Okay i’m about to try this again. I want to have the whole thing on one partition on my primary hard drive with the second hrd drive being left alone save that it actually mounts and is visible when i boot up. What exactly do i have to do during tht portion of setup to achieve that?
Okay i installed from the DVD. I had some trouble installing KDE 4 so i went to 3.5
I’m having some of the same trouble i had before. I set a mount point for the secondary hard drive and now it won’t boot. I’m having to use a live cd to post this. Maybe i will have better luck installing from that.
Anyone have any idea?
Angelbeast wrote:
> Okay i installed from the DVD. I had some trouble installing KDE 4 so i
> went to 3.5
> I’m having some of the same trouble i had before. I set a mount point
> for the secondary hard drive and now it won’t boot. I’m having to use a
> live cd to post this. Maybe i will have better luck installing from
> that.
>
> Anyone have any idea?
Does it boot when the secondary drive is out and fail when it is in? Does it
fail early? If the answer to both questions is yes, it is likely that your BIOS
is reordering the drives. See if your BIOS can be modified to fix this problem.
I had this problem when I added a PATA drive to a computer with a pair of SATA
drives.
Just adding a mount point shouldn’t cause the boot to fail. If you got it wrong,
it should just output an error message.
Larry
ahhh…i’ll check that right now…
Okay that did not work, the drives seemed to be in order. I can’t imagine what’s wrong. On Mint it detected and mounted it automatically just fine with no trouble. I would really rather not have to reinstll again since i have like 5 times already. Does anyone have any other suggestions Please??
Could you post the output of ’ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l ’ and the contents of /boot/grub/menu.1st?
Then we can see what layout we are talking about 
P.s. Do you get any errors when you try booting?
Hi! Thanks for replying Okay here you go…
ron@linux-faly:~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
root’s password:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1d6a1d69
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 9729 55070820 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf998f998
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux
ron@linux-faly:~>
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and i got this when opening the menu file…
An error occurred while loading system:/media/sda2/boot/grub/menu.lst:
Could not read /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Sorry, you have to be root to read that file.
try ’ sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.1st ’
haha it’s being a bit stubborn…
it said no such fileor directory…can i open up konqueror in sudo mode in any way and get to it that way?
Sorry for the late reply! I missed you had posted 
Thats what I get for copy/paste on a bad filename… it’s menu.lst (not 1st) My error. Sorry!
This file has the boot entries so we can see whats being called at boot time.
Cheers,
Wj
correct command is : sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
Hi. Can you mount sdb ‘by hand’? I mean in a terminal?
Try this and then let us know what happens:
- open a console
- log in as root
> su
> root’s password - create a mount point
> mkdir temp - mount the drive in this folder
> mount /dev/sdb1 temp - enter temp
> cd temp - look at the files
> ls
Now, if you can see something, and the computer does not hangs, we have to investigate what happens with the yast paritioner. Let us know