Urgent help please - GRUB issues

Was having opensuse 12.3 KDE / win7 dual boot happily then.

Played around with boot-repair cd here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

run the repair boot problems and upon reboot I get the GRUB> prompt

Here is the latest boot info (which boot to GRUB> prompt)
Ubuntu Pastebin

Googled a bit but those ls (hd0,5), set root=(hdx,y), … does not work (all unknown commands).
Input boot under GRUB> prompt gives “kernel must be loaded before booting”

Do not have openSUSE live CD at the moment. I have now only a linux mint 14 live CD.

Urgent help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

andy0023 wrote:

> Do not have openSUSE live CD at the moment. I have now only a linux
> mint 14 live CD.

You can’t repair openSUSE with Mint
But you could

1/ Install Mint in a small partition (if you can make room)
Once done you should be able to boot openSUSE.
And I can instruct you from there

2/ Use the Mint Live CD to download openSUSE and then burn it to a DVD
And use this to repair openSUSE

On 2013-07-17 05:05, caf4926 wrote:

> 2/ Use the Mint Live CD to download openSUSE and then burn it to a DVD
> And use this to repair openSUSE

There is a little known 12.3 live CD with XFCE, designed for rescue.
Less size than the DVD, or the KDE/GNOME lives.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

hi caf4926, i prefer 2/. could you give me further steps for 2/? thanks

I wasn’t thinking clearly. You need to be able to boot Mint for a USB or you need more than one DVD drive. I forget folks might not have what I have.

Boot up Mint and use Gparted and take a screenshot of your layout. Let me see what we are up against.

i would boot from cd drive to mint. hopefully i could download opensuse and use mintstick tools to create usb opensuse. should i download the opensuse rescue or live kde? would post gparted image later as i am now away from my pc. would the ubuntu paste serve as ref for now? thanks

In Mint you could install Imagewriter, even in Live mode you can do this.

Then:

You obviously need a working Internet
Use the mint file manager to open your openSUSE /home partition, you need to save the file here.
Use the web browser to download the KDE Live media from here: Index of /distribution/12.3/iso
You need to pick the one for you
64 bit?: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/iso/openSUSE-12.3-KDE-Live-x86_64.iso
32 bit?: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/iso/openSUSE-12.3-KDE-Live-i686.iso

Be sure to save it to the physical disk, your openSUSE partition.

Once done use Imagewriter to create the bootable USB (of course your machine must be able to boot from USB)

Once you have done that, boot the USB and follow this
https://forums.opensuse.org/content/146-using-livecd-take-over-repair-installed-system.html

Once you have control of the system. In the terminal next do this:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg


grub2-install /dev/sda


That’s it

You can now reboot

here is my latest gparted (taken from mint live cd boot)
View image: latest gparted grub corrupted

here is my original gparted before under opensuse (when boots fine)
View image: gparted

noticed that the type flag is missing in the current image (taken from live cd boot).

am going to proceed as advised (download/boot into opensuse kde live, get control of existing opensuse, fix grub)

thank you for support.

thank you caf4926 for the support. rotfl!

Carried out the procedure and got back the normal boot.

FYR some error encountered in the process (but am fine and happy with the result)

http://postimg.org/image/555wovk2h/

there is a reason for my folly trapping myself like this. would start another thread to seek advice.

The opensuse rescue disc is on this page along with all of the other variations

software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 12.3

I have generally used Knoppix - where a cd / dvd run linux came from

Knoppix Linux Boot CD, Download Disk and Documents, Discuss, Get Help

As they point out extensive help etc. I’ve not needed to use it for several years. From memory the only cheat code that may be needed is to select the correct keyboard/language. Odd thing to call them really as they are boot options and are offered on all Linux distro’s as far as I am aware.

Not sure why some one might play with boot. If some one wants to look at say another linux distro or even a linux distro on windows it’s more convenient to use virtualisation as that doesn’t need machine reboots. Guest os’s are soft booted instead, quickly too. The one I use is this one along with the extensions.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

It can save a lot of heartache - don’t like the os - just delete the guest os. I’ve not used it for some time but will be using it with windows 7 installed as I have to use one windows package for optical design that I usually run under wine but one version of it isn’t fully functional. Windows came with my new machine. No way would I buy it. Wine can be an alternative for some as these days it will run lots of windows apps well. Q4wine fits in with it well too making it easier to use. With those 2 installed clicks on windows things launch. WineHQ gives info on software that can be run under it but often seems to be games orientated.

John

On 2013-07-17 06:36, caf4926 wrote:

> You obviously need a working Internet
> Use the mint file manager to open your openSUSE /home partition, you
> need to save the file here.
> Use the web browser to download the KDE Live media from here: ‘Index of
> /distribution/12.3/iso’

Why not the XFCE Rescue live media?
It is designed for this situation.

for example, for 64 bit:


> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/iso/openSUSE-12.3-Rescue-CD-i686.iso

or with metalink to maximize speed and include verification:


> aria2c --summary-interval=300   http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/iso/openSUSE-12.3-Rescue-CD-i686.iso.meta4

(--max-download-limit=100K to limit speed)


It is the only image that can be burned to a CD or to a USB stick,
whatever you need.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)