Folks, I had 42.1 on sdb8 (/) and sdb9 (home). I clean installed 42.2 on my sdb7. After a perfect installation, I noted that sdb8 was left untouched and sdb9 was modified and sdb7 was used as a new root partition for 42.2. Although my intention was to install the entire 42.2 on sdb7 (both root and home), i became satisfied with the new installation. All is OK now except “Kinf” says i have 42.2 with plasma 5.5.
What happened to plasma 5.8 then?
Thanks!
Sounds like a bit of a dogs breakfast
So you need to be clear if 42.2 is running entirely from sdb7 as you intended? And why do you mention sdb9 was modified, is that relevant to your problem do you think? I thought sdb9 was /home for 42.1?
If you mount the old home on a new install you must be sure NOT to format it. Default on new install is to format home 
That is impossible. There are no Plasma 5.5 packages for Leap 42.2 . Please show output, like from
sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab
cat /etc/os-release
rpm -qa | grep kernel
Folks, you are right the installation appear to have rearranged my partitions on the sbd.
Attached is a snapshot of my partitions on the hard drive. As you note the order of my partitions before initiation of 42.2 install is listed under the heading “label” and on the very left panel is the list of partitions after installation. During installation partition sdb7 was selected for (/) and no home partition was selected as i intended all to be placed on this partition (sdb7). I also designated this partition for grub installation. After a smooth installation (no error or hiccups) I updated grub from the booting OS. And now from updated grub when I select sdb7 it still loads the 42.1. Before installation I never had any BtrFS and TMPfs partitions on this drive. Now I am not sure what the installation has done and which partition is the root partition for 42.2 in order that I could update the grub to load 42.2 rather 42.1 that is now being loaded by selecting sdb7 from grub at boot time.
marco@Lenovo:~> sudo fdisk -l
root’s password:
Disk /dev/sda: 74.5 GiB, 80032038912 bytes, 156312576 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x8b85667f
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 63 156312449 156312387 74.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdb: 232.9 GiB, 250000000000 bytes, 488281250 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x66dd020a
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 63 4192964 4192902 2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 4192965 42620444 38427480 18.3G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 42620445 82461644 39841200 19G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 * 82461706 488263544 405801839 193.5G 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 82461708 113932979 31471272 15G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 113933043 146223691 32290649 15.4G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 240605568 272060837 31455270 15G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 282551283 345493952 62942670 30G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb9 439940088 488263544 48323457 23G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb10 146239758 188169406 41929649 20G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb11 345495552 439939071 94443520 45G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb12 188170240 240605183 52434944 25G 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
marco@Lenovo:~>
marco@Lenovo:~> cat /etc/fstab
UUID=2f247607-f1f8-45ff-bf68-ba9f505b2cef / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
UUID=f2891255-2780-48bc-933c-54ee721fef61 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
UUID=0d36acdd-8cbd-489a-9ff0-8c469ed2ef7a swap swap defaults 0 0
marco@Lenovo:~>
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marco@Lenovo:~> cat /etc/os-release
NAME=“openSUSE Leap”
VERSION=“42.1”
VERSION_ID=“42.1”
PRETTY_NAME=“openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)”
ID=opensuse
ANSI_COLOR=“0;32”
CPE_NAME=“cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:42.1”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.opensuse.org”
HOME_URL=“https://opensuse.org/”
ID_LIKE=“suse”
marco@Lenovo:~>
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marco@Lenovo:~> rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-default-4.1.31-30.2.x86_64
nfs-kernel-server-1.3.0-26.1.x86_64
kernel-default-4.1.34-33.1.x86_64
kernel-firmware-20160503-3.1.noarch
marco@Lenovo:~>
Sorry could someone tell me where i can put the snapshot for access. I thought i could insert it here but not allowed must put only the link here. Thanks!
If you go in to Yast Partitioner
Which partitions are in use?
It’s just earlier you said sdb9 was /home
But in the latest output you gave it’s a Windows file system
As you can see from the output, you’re booting 42.1
Please also show output of
mount
and please put the output between CODE tags, the # in the editor layout
You can’t use a Windows file system as home. It does not have persistent permissions and will break things
Well, it appears my grub2 cannot detect btrfs type extended partition and that is why it does not list leap 42.2.
During the installation, the installer rearranged the existing partitions Nos 8-11 by renumbering these to 7-10, and took an unallocated space to make a new partition no. 11 with xfs format and used the existing partition 7 (empty) renaming it no. 12, formatted btrfs and put leap 42.2 on it. The grub2 (after being updated) now lists bootable partitions 2-7 and nothing more. The listed partition 7 (former 8) loads leap42.1 just fine.
I used chainloader entries on 40_custom to load partition 12 in grub 2 and was successful to boot leap 42.2. However after couple of times rebooting due to configuration, the grub 2 now says “no such a partition available”. Perhaps it now needs partition code no. rather than “sdb12”.
I have o idea as to how else i can make grub2 to boot partition no.12 (btrfs) which loads leap 42.2.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
I’d say consider
Backup what you need
And completely re-do everything
Is it really necessary to carve up your HDD in to so many small parts?
Thanks! I may consider that.
One question though. Does the 42.2 installer provide options of disk formating during installation? I don’t remember if I noticed that option during my installation. I need to know this for my re-installaion since I am not so fond of btrfs.
Sure just take control which you should do anyway on any complex install. Don’t trust the installer to read your mind. BTW you format partition not drives.
That is what I meant!
Thanks!