Hey guys,
I just installed openSUSE on my computer. It is being dual booted with Ubuntu, so i didn’t install openSUSE’s grub rather I added an entry to my previous GRUB. The install finished but when I try to boot it for the first time it seems to boot alright until it gets to “Starting HAL”, and it just stops. I can’t even boot into it. I am able to mount it using Ubuntu so I am in a position to edit and files that need editing. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.
Ok, so I tied it again and notice a bunch of errors, here are some of them:
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/common/logging.sh: line 51: /var/log/YaST2/y2start.log: read only file system
Cannot remove 'var/lock/subsys/syslogd'
Removing stale PID file 'var/run/hald/halddaemon.pid': Read only file system
And under the errors I get
loading CPUfreq modules
Starting HAL Daemons
If I leave it for ten or so minutes I get to a console login, but the user-name and password I configured on install don’t work. Any ideas?
Thanks again for your help.
> Code:
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> /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/common/logging.sh: line 51: /var/log/YaST2/y2start.log: read only file system
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i can’t imagine why /var is on a read only file system…
in my experience /var must be a read/write system…
where/how did you mount /var read only, and why?
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palladium
Have a lot of fun…
I have the entire thing on one partition so var is on the same partition as /. The only thing on a separate partition is swap space. I haven’t mounted /var at all manually since I haven’t been able to boot into openSUSE for the first time yet. The way it is now is how it was set up automatically using the installer.
> I have the entire thing on one partition so var is on the same
> partition as /. The only thing on a separate partition is swap space. I
> haven’t mounted /var at all manually since I haven’t been able to boot
> into openSUSE for the first time yet. The way it is now is how it was
> set up automatically using the installer.
then, i am stumped…hope someone else can help
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palladium
now seeding 11.2 DVD (64) and GNOME Live CD
OK, sorry guys but I am an idiot :shame: Needless to say I fixed the problem. The problem was with my GRUB entry. I had:
title Suse
root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default ro root=/dev/sda11 ro
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default
boot
I changed it to:
title Suse
root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default root=/dev/sda11
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default
boot
Copied the template from someone on the internet and didn’t even think about the read only options. But it’s working now, thanks for your patience and help.
yep, that read only stuff stops lots of things happening…
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palladium