I initially had Red Hat 5 on my pc on my primary 40 hard drive, then i added a second hard drive as a secondary master and went on to install suse on it, now when suse boots it doesn't even give me the option to boot red hat, i did not touch any of the partitions on the red hat hard drive during the suse installation. Is there hope ???
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There was an option in openSUSE about booting an installed system if grub is deleted from the MBR. This option is no longer available and there is no option for automatic recovery. For these reasons, I want to boot an installed system from command line. I know how to mount the root partition where openSUSE 11.3 is installed, but how to proceed?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI suspect this is a 'new Grub' problem. I installed OpenSuse 11.2 from DVD into one (sda10) of several partitions (the others containing other operating systems):-
/dev/sda1 * 1 63 506016 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 64 4865 38572065 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 64 960 7205121 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 961 1859 7221186 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 1860 2759 7229218+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 2760 3026 2144646 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 3027 3924 7213153+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 3925 4865 7558551 83 Linux
I use NT Boot Loader for the multi-booting on the basis of chain-loading the boot sector of Linux partitions. (It is not destroyed by MS re-installations; and is actually very easy to use). I also have an older Grub shell boot floppy which can do likewise:- root (hd0,x)chainloader +1 boot FWIW I found the disc partition & boot loader parts of the installation a nightmare. Difficult to know what it is going to do; and I am sure it *did* fiddle with parts I asked it to avoid. Horribly, it did *not* make me a dedicated Suse boot floppy like I checked. (This is always the safest boot option for a new install: it leaves the present boot system intact, and provides an independant way of loading your latest. You can refine things later). I had also checked to have the boot sector on the *root partition*.
I have never been able to get into the Suse. NT Loader does not like the partition boot sector. Nor does (an older) Grub from its boot floppy. I have tried the DVD in 'system repair' mode, when it finds things wrong and corrects them, same next time... It offers a way of directly booting a selected system; that did not work.
Any suggestions? I can provide more precise error msgs, but it is tedious; and system repair from DVD dicey. I feel that *the partition boot sector is not being properly set up*.And I want to be able to make a dedicated boot floppy; how? I have an identical problem with Ubuntu, which makes me think it is related to the 'new' Grub.
I have installed new programs with Yast, such as [URL].. It all installs fine (no error messages) - But how do I get to run it? I figure I need to make a shortcut on my desktop, so that I can call up the new application, but I do not know how to do that. Could anyone take a few minutes to explain this to me?
View 5 Replies View RelatedRecently my computer was infected by several viruses and my brother cleaned it up and installed SuSe for me. He also put windows xp back on my system for our children. I am having a terrible time installing our Dell 924 printer. I have it installed for windows, but cannot get it to print for my Linux system. What am I doing wrong? Can anyone give me some direction?
View 5 Replies View RelatedOK... I tried everything i could think of... but i still cannot get my Open SUSE 11.1 to mount my samba share at boot! I still don't understand the 11.1 boot sequence. can NE one help me... tell me what files to give you output from... Ty guys P.S. My shares originate from a Windows Server 2003 RC2 machine, and it's dns server doesn't work correctly... so my mount command is
mount -t //192.168.x.x/files/ /nET/ -o username=linux,password=xxxxxx
please let me know what other info you need... I don't have the internet, so it will be tommorow b4 i see this again!!! Thanks
upon adding the installed VL on the existing LILO.. (btw i have not installed its LILO on the installation setup) since i know that i will just add it to the "existing" LILO the error above arises upon doing the lilo run command.$adding Vector6.0 etc.FATAL : Boot sector of /dev/hdc13 doesn't have a boot signature.i have tagged the /dev/hdc13 bootable via CFDISK. but same problem arises..
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have Suse Ent 10 SP3 that when I reboot the server sometimes it won't... it behaves like this
up and running If I rebooted boots ok so up and running again and If I rebooted again it won't from Hadr Drives
What I can check on my boot/grub?
why sometimes boots OK and sometimes does not
but the way I was thinking it was the HBA attached but I removed them
I Would like to dual boot my computer for it to have suse linux and windows xp professional I have an 80 GB hard drive partitioned in NTFS is it possible to dual boot and what software do you suggest to partition the hard drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install SuSe 9.3 from a Live CD onto an old laptop, and the base installation completes but the boot does not finish. It stops at the following:
Waiting for device /dev/hdc5 to appear: ......resume device /dev/hdc5 not found (ignoring)
Loading kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
Waiting for device /dev/hdc1 to appear: ...... not found -- exiting to /bin/sh
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
$
Hardware is: Sony Vaio PCG FX205K, 128Mb RAM, 850MhZ, 20G Hard drive.
Thinking of putting sab alongside suze 11.3, I wonder if the bootloaders are compatible (versions of grub) or if only native systems (apart from windows/apple) are acceptable.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently installed 11.3 on an external drive. After adding some software in yast (searched Kernel and checked every option), I was prompted to reboot but the no boot sector found error came up. Tried reinstalling with the same result. Grub is boot loader
View 8 Replies View RelatedMy Suse server is failing to boot and it is giving the following error:
Mellanox ConnectX Boot over IB v1.9.972
gPXE 0.9.6+ -- Open Source Boot Firmware -- [URL]
No more network devices
I have two network interfaces
Infiniband network and the Ethernet network.
It is a x6275 Sun server.
Where can i the instald software in suse11.2 with kdeis there the same as in windows configuration->software.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have tried using cairo-dock but not much impressed as its more flashy(installation was very easy ), Today i tried installing simdock which is showing me some error like. checking for wx-config... no configure: error:wxWidgets must be installed on your system. check that wx-config is in path, the directory where wxWidgets libraries are installed (returned by 'wx-config --libs' or 'wx-config --static --libs' command) is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent variable and wxWidgets version is 2.8.0 or above "How to get thru this problem.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a laptop with Windows XP. I partitioned the drive and installed opensolaris on the second partition. Now whenever I turn on the laptop, Grub opens and only gives me the option for Solaris and not windows. I haven't been able to boot to Windows since. I've seen a lot about editing the command lines for Grub but I'm new to this.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have succesfully installed VL6.0 on my desktop (together with other and recently used 5.8 and Sw12.0) install successful but upon booting (i have included 6.0 in my 5.8's lilo) it just stops on a point where in it says:
I am not sure if this is a mem failure (though all of my linux boxes runs properly)
I have re-installed it.. encountered the same. .
As i have checked my SW12.0's dmesg, same line appears but it boots..
Quote:
Code:
And my ISO image is good as per the md5sum. . .
details:
1. installed successfully
2. LILO installed in boot record of /dev/hdc12 --where 6.0 is installed
3. added 6.0 in my current LILO (VL 5.8)
4. ALL BOXES (sw12.0, vl5.8, zw4.6.1) are loading except VL6.0
When I run suse 11.3 live from CD I can connect to the Internet, but when I install it I can't get it to connect.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm currently trying to add OpenSUSE to my Laptop which already has Vista Ultimate installed, hoping I will end up with a dual boot system. Currently, my HD is divided into four partition: Vista Ultimate with Bitlocker enabled needs two partitions - one for the unencrypted boot files, and one for the rest of the system. Then I have an unencrypted partition for data that I don't want encrypted, and finally the partition in which I plan to install Linux.
I have already installed OpenSUSE to that fourth partition, and it worked just fine. But now, I'd like to reinstall with LVM, so that I can use encryption as well. Upon installation, however, I get the following error: Code: Error Failure occurred during following action: Creating volume group system fromv System error code was: -4004 I'm wondering if this is because I'm running out of (primary?) partitions? Seems like LVM, just like Vista Ultimate, needs two partitions, one for the boot files and one for the rest of the system. I've read something about a PC drive only being able to hold four partitions, so I'm wondering if I need to get rid of that extra unencrypted partition I have in order to get OpenSUSE with LVM installed. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
I have matlab installed on a network (I am not the administrator) and we usually start the program by typing "matlab", then choosing one of the version options from the menu i.e. typing "n". So because of this, trying to run matlab programs or commands directly like this... matlab -r ProgramName
...does not work. I just get the menu as usual and everything else is ignored. I assume the admin has overridden the matlab command with their own custom script. So my question is can I start a specific version of the program by specifying the folder that the version is in? I thought it might be something like /opt/matlab/version -r programname
this might look foolish, but I am a bit of a linux noob. Let me know if I should just ask my administrator but I thought there might be something easy I am missing.
There was a kernel update included in my last three attempts of online updating SuSE 11.2 -- all of which which ended with an error, something like kernel rpm could not be installed (one can't copy that out of the YAST-window ).
The new kernel-relevant directories are there under /boot, the original 2.6.31.5 is gone. This produced lots of errors during the next boot until I manually re-assigned links in /lib/modules pointing to the new kernels. "uname -a" shows my old kernel (see also this thread: [url].
I ran "rpm --rebuilddb" and re-tried the installation, all to no avail.
In the message box during install came about 1,5 MB of errors, a brief extract is shown below:
Code:
Any ideas how to proceed? Can one delete the rpm database and rebuild it from the online repositories?
I have downloaded tarballs of gpg2 (gnupg-2.0.16), compiled it, compiled dependencies etc. and have it installed on my Suse 10 box. Now I want to install it on another suse 10 box. Instead of doing the compiling/installing steps once again, is there a good way I can package gpg2, or tar it on my server, so it can be easily installed on the other server? Also, when I installed gpg, it was installed everywhere, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/bin, my download dir etc. How do I pick the needed libraries and executable to make the package? maybe I Should specify a path for the gpg to be installed, then tar the whole directory. how to do the first part?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo, did anyone know this?
I dont remember seeing ti anywhere I accidently installed grub2 to my usb aand it actually worked and boots all my distros off fat32 usb
I though grub2 could only do ext2/3,etc
I can see this error occurring in multiple past versions of suse. The answer seems to involve recompiling the open source version of VBox, but this is surely overkill. Isn't there a way to either a)get the right kernel version of VBox for 11.3 or b)set whatever permissions are required.
In all the answer so far I can't see a solution I can understand for these combinations, sues 11.3 and VBox 3.2.8. The error is consistent, and if the install doesn't work properly (it took my a few attempts even to install it without error messages) then surely its an issue either for Oracle or Suse? It runs ok but hwen trying to fire up a newly created XP VM this error message occurs trying to switch from W764bit to suse11.3 64bit
I am running Suse 11.3 64bit and OpenOffice 3.2.1.4 it installed with the system.OpenOffice's latest is 3.3 something, is there a repository that I can add to continuously update the program? Or do I need to completely remove the present program and install the latest from OpenOffice.org? It would appear that the one that came with the system was pieced together by the Suse team - do they update this at all?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install the locate and the updatedb command as they were not intially installed during the desktop installation of linux. How do I do this
View 1 Replies View Relatedi installed ubuntu in my system after that i formatted my xp and installed it again. After installing ubuntu is not showing in the boot up screen. can any one say what to do for showing ubuntu in boot uo screen...
View 7 Replies View RelatedI lost two computers this summer, and want to place my xp harddrive in with my cpu running linux.
I have both drives in , and linux detects the windows drive.
Is it too late to make this a duel boot.? all the duel boot threads, I searched start with a fresh install.
linux and a good thing to start is to install centos in my pc together with windows xp. please help me on how to dual boot Centos 5.0 and Windows XP pro step by step.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've not been able to find a solution on the forums, so thought I'd post. My DELL PC came with Vista installed and I then added Ubuntu. This seemed to work fine although I didn't really use Ubuntu too much. Then last week I decide to replace Ubuntu with Fedora 12. I selected the replace existing Linux option during the install process.
After installation, Grub displayed 2 options: Fedora and Other. Fedora was fine, other didn't boot. After readinf around I added another option for vista, but this results in the following error:
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
fdisk -l returns:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x50000000
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