OpenSUSE Install :: Dwight Can't Chainload Worth Diddley?
Jul 24, 2010
I'm trying to setup existing Linux partitions to boot using chainloader following instructions from here:
Cool Solutions: Install Linux Frequently, Without the Hassle
and here:
Error Loading Operating System after 11.3 fresh install
Here's fdisk -l:
Code:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Jul 25, 2010
I'm trying to setup existing Linux partitions to boot using chainloader following instructions from here:
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Jul 2, 2010
My internal is sda windows = sda1 recovery = sda2 my external is sdb storage = sdb1 linux sdb2 GRUB is on sdb2's first sector. I tried coping it to grub.mbr on sda1 and added C:grub.mbr="ubuntu linux" all I get when selecting it is _ blinking and no booting. USB booting from BIOS works but I don't want family to have to mess with unplugging and replugging it when they want to boot to Windows. I also tried installing GRUB2 to MBR of sdb and copying same problem.
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Jan 3, 2011
I have a machine with two disc but only one is involved in the boot. It is hd0 / sda. On this I have several partitions, first I have a partion (sda1) with grub-legacy and a menu.lst file that boot by chainloading my ubuntu 10.04 on partition sda4 (with ext4 and grub 2). This works without any problems. Today I was doing a larger upgrade of my mythtv install so I first copied sda4 to sda3, did all the neccessary changes in /etc/fstab and a grub-mkconfig (so that the grub.cfg on sda4 also included sda3 kernel). The chainload manage to nicely chainload to sda4 and when I select the newly copied kernel on sda3 it boots. Now inside the booted kernel/ubuntu on sda3 I again do the grub-mkconfig so I get a correct grub menu. I add a new chainload to menu.lst on sda1 so that I can go direct from that to my new partition.
when I chainload to the sda3 (hd0,2) partition I get grub-legacy error 13 invalid or unsupported executable format. No grub2 menu from sda3 shows up and the boot halts. The grub.cfg files on sda3 and sda4 are identical besides the uuid and hd0,3/4 references.
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Mar 20, 2011
I've long been looking for a way to make an ISO out of a CD I have, write it to a partition and boot it with grub2. I understand that doing that is non-trivial so I decided to go a different route (for now). I extracted the contents of the CD (iso9660) onto a NTFS partition (/dev/sda6). The CD has several things on it, it first loads a text-based screen that has options to either boot the first HDD, boot to a Windows PE environment, or boot some isolinux-based utlities. I've observed the following on in its root directory:
/boot/BCD
/boot/bootsec.exe (and others)
/ezboot/*.ezb
/isolinux/isolinux.bin (and others)
/bootmgr
So based on what I see when I boot the CD, and the files I'm seeing on it, the EZboot loads first, then either the Windows PE bootloader or ISOLinux depending on what you pick. I have grub installed onto it's own dir and it works fine for linux. When I ran grub-mkconfig it found a Windows Bootloader on /dev/sda6 but when booting to it the machine resets. So the Question is: Can I chainload EZBoot? If not, can I chainload Windows PE and add a menuentry for ISOLinux?
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May 4, 2010
Out of curiosity, can you chainload a Linux system via a Windows executable within Windows at the ordinary desktop?Knowing windows there would be enough holes to write at any memory address without "permission", but can it be done with a humble executable? Or is Windows just too active, without the chance of nothing happening at any one pointo that everything can be exited cleanly non-existent?I'm not asking for a program or guide to do this and neither do I aim to do it. As I've stated it is all out of curiosity on whether or not some sort of protection is in place to stop this kind of thing
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Apr 28, 2011
I am still relatively new to Ubuntu and still learning the various functions to Ubuntu 10.10. I use an IBM ThinkPad and have been very happy with Ubuntu, although there is definitely a learning curve. I would like to know whether those of you who have tried it think that Ubuntu 11.04 is worth the upgrade, or is it better for someone learning to stick with 10.10? I notice that there are some differences in 11.04 and I'm not sure whether these are advantageous or a liability!
I am just getting used to OpenOffice, for example, and I notice that 11.04 uses a different default editor. Of course I could probably download OpenOffice, but why this change? Also, there is a new default media player on 11.04--is this change necessary? I'm adventurous enough to move to 11.04 if it is an improvement, but I would rather stay where I am if it would just be inviting problems.
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Jul 4, 2010
i'm new to linux i want to know so manythings, like "is linux worth using without internet connection? without it how can i upgrade my OS ?
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Feb 15, 2010
I've been backing up a lot of my computer data for 2 years now and it has added up to a terabyte, so I went to bestbuy and bought a 1.5 terabyte external hard drive. I went home and I moved all my data on to it.Now it is starting to fail! As soon as I heard clicking noises I copied all the files over back to my original hard drive.
I had alot of personal information on the 1.5 TB hard drive that is failing(it is still working though), and incase when I try to take it back and they restore it, I do not want them looking through my stuff. I have tried the shred command but thats going to take forever just to overwrite one terabyte once.Will a format remove all my personal files from recovery? What are some other things I could try?
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Oct 10, 2010
I have an ancient computer that's been running Ubuntu since about last year. I started with 8.04.4 but then upgraded to 10.04 via apt-get.I mostly use this machine as a file dump for other computers on the network.
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Oct 21, 2010
I encrypted my hard drive on my media PC but it's really annoying having to type in a password every time I turn it on. I chose a short password so it was quick and easy to type in but is it worth encrypting data with a weak password?If the computer is suspended, someone could come along and resume the computer. They would be presented with a locked GNOME session) but the data would be unencrypted; does this go against encrypting the hard drive? Or does the locked GNOME session provide enough security to keep an intruder out?
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Aug 23, 2010
I've been using Thunderbird for a lot, but I would like a lighter mail client. I was checking Sylpheed but it lacks of HTML rendering for incoming messages, and that is a "must" for me. Then I realized that Claws started as a parallel branch of Sylpheed but included those features Sylpheed doesn't have (one of them is the HTML rendering).
I would like to know if Claws is as light as Sylpheed to see if it's worth it to switch to Claws, because the reason to switch is to get a lighter mail client.
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Jul 12, 2010
I'm just about to commence a full reinstall of my home media server. Planning on using 1x 1tb and 7x 1.5TB drives in raid 6. I notice the version of mdadm distributed in Ubuntu is 2.6.7.1, but versions exist up to 2.6.9 (excluding all the 3.X ones) Is it worth using a later version? Or is 2.6.7.1 used for a particular reason?
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Apr 27, 2011
I am currently downloading 44Gig of video files and I noticed that Transmission is reporting that I have downloaded 40.5Gigs already with +50MB corrupt.How do I correct the 50MB worth of corrupt data?
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Jan 25, 2011
What If I wanted to scan a string like the following...
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Anyhow just one giant string that's longer than my screen's width. If I simply copy and paste that string after a grep command, it seems that the terminal inserts newlines at the terminal's width and therefore not the whole string goes in. Even if I insert a quote before the beginning of the string and then paste it in, terminal still reads in a newlines somehow and obviously says command not found, etc.
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Jun 21, 2010
I'm trying to do an rsync from one RHEL box to another, but when I run it in verbose mode to see why its not working, all it does is show the root folder, then one folder in, then it stops. There are about a dozen folders under that root folder where the rsync starts, with about 350GB data spread between them. How can I tell why this isn't working? the same command is setup to run as a cron job, which was working.
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May 14, 2011
It's been about three days since I've made Ubuntu my OS and I'm quite surprised to see, when I tried it first via wubi, that it actually reads NTFS partitions.It made backing up easy for me though now is it still alright that I still keep them NTFS or should I now start converting them to ext4? Except for my external hard drive.and what's the difference with ext3 and ext4? I was shown these options when I tried formatting my hard drive.
My other hard drive has two partitions which was done when I installed windows a few years back..If I would to reformat should I combine these partitions into one and make new partitions via that?
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Dec 7, 2010
I have read that when using xfs with lvm2, prior to kernel 2.6.29 write barriers are by deffault disabled.As i want to migrate /home to xfs (and create a external partition to hold some data in xfs too) i was thinking in compile a custom kernel 2.6.30 or higher from [URL].I have read the wiki, all the warnings , and that for compile a kernel.org kernel you should use the Linux Kernel in a Nutshel guide/book. But i don't really know if would worth do that only to have write barrier support , more when in one month i will buy a ups to be sure i can shutdown the pc well if the power goes out.Should i enable write barriers on xfs with lvm2 ,although going to have a ups ?
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Oct 18, 2010
I built my slackware system from source code. Bootstrapped, toolchained etc.. The only thing I didn't change was the chost thinking that life would be easier if left alone @ i486. Would I have gained anything if I had used i786 or even pentium4 (pentium4-slackware-linux-gnu)?
I already got all the benefits of optimization when I used (still using) my own CFLAGS CXXFLAGS right? So changing the chost won't do anything speed wise will it? If I used march=prescott when compiling everything am I ok to just forget about the chost value? It's not gonna change anything will it?
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Oct 31, 2010
All on All Hallo(w)s Evening [HallowE'en] To who ever it may concern Dear Sir or Madam I am a relative newbie to computing having only started just two years ago. Up until today I have been using Windows Vista, but having come across the refreshing open source, creative commons and free software foundations that are much closer to my heart's way of thinking I decided to download and install Ubuntu as a prerequisite to switching completely away from paid for operating systems and software.
In order to do this I firstly purchased a new 1Gb hard drive and installed it alongside my factory installed 250Gb hard drive with the windows factory image etc on it. I then partitioned the new drive with 30Gb for Ubuntu, another 300Gb for any future backups (Yes I know it's a lot) from my separate Windows Vista OS 250Gb hard drive, which left 600Gb spare.
I got up early today a Sunday morning at 0500hrs to ensure I had plenty of download speed etc and that all would be done and dusted by the time I needed to be available today for family and community social commitments etc However nothing has worked out in anyway like I would have expected it to or in anyway like Ubuntu's descriptions project, and I am typing this letter nearly 7 hours later and I have still not got Ubuntu properly installed as a dual boot system alongside my windows vista. In fact I am very surprised at the somewhat illogical and careless approach that the web pages take in explaining how to download and install Ubuntu.
Firstly I arrive at the webpage : [URL]... To be greeted with an introduction and a red download button to the right.
I click on this and end up on page: [URl]... To be greeted by another red download button that is at least six times larger than the previous one and because it is in exactly the same place on this page as the previous one was on the previous page my mouse is already hovering over it and my brain just wants to click it and start using Ubuntu.
I quickly read the instructions: Click the big orange button to download the latest version of Ubuntu. You will need to create a CD or USB stick to install Ubuntu
And then I click to download and save/burn the download straight to a CD, which as you may well already realize is "Goodbye CD" because as I have since learned all I was doing was burning an exact copy of an ISO file to the CD that cannot be used for installing or booting from.
After I finally give up trying to get the ISO file to install ubuntu some 30-40 minutes later it's already 7am because it also took 40 minutes to download the file. Anyway I go back to the download page and read the instructions again including the little paragraphs that are underneath the huge red download button.
Originally my thoughts had been "These are obviously not that important because they are "below" the download button otherwise if they were of importance these instructions would have been placed above the HUGE Red download button along with any warnings like---
Before you download Ubuntu please check the following: A. Is this an installation to a PC with ubuntu already installed --- please click here
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Sep 21, 2010
I was just on an irc channel asking about Slackware, which I just installed, and they started bashing it saying its completely worthless. In 2010 is it still a good OS to use if learning about OS guts? I have another system which I use when I need to get stuff done, so its not like I can't deal with any system issues that may arise.
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Aug 4, 2010
After a fresh install of opensuse 11.3 x86_64, using a NET install CD, I noticed that the boot disk layout has overlapping partitions. I've noticed one other post that mentioned this at the very end. Is this a known problem already? Or is there something I'm missing that makes this okay?
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Sep 29, 2010
I'm running openSUSE 11.3 and screwed some things up so that I can't install anything, including UNetbootin. So I decided to completely reinstall. I'm limited to using my hard drive as there's no CD/DVD or floppy drives installed on the machine and BIOS does not support booting from USB.
I found these instructions - Install any Linux distro directly from hard disk without burning any DVD - Just Another Linux Lover Blog
From the terminal enter these commands
sudo mkdir /distro
sudo chmod `whoami`:`whoami`
cp MYLINUX.iso /distro/distro.iso
Now extract Linux_kernel & Ram_disk to /distro#
Open /boot/grub/menu.lst
#ADD NEW ENTRY#
title Install Linux
root (hdX,X)
kernel /distro/Linux_kernel
initrd /distro/Ram_disk
Reboot and select "Install Linux" from grub. Blog Widget by LinkWithin
Creating the folder "distro" on root was easy and went smoothly. I can't seem to make the second 'whoami' command work, though. I copied-and-pasted "sudo chmod `whoami`:`whoami`" into the terminal. It asks me for the root password, I enter that and then get
chmod: missing operand after `holly:holly'
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
I didn't see anyone reply in the comments of that page saying they had trouble with it, so I think I'm just being an idiot. One person did suggest adding distro at the end on another page and it gets me
chmod: invalid mode: `holly:holly'
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
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Jan 19, 2011
i know if u search a solution in forums u get so much confused information. i hope this little manual will help all with the nvidia driver problem! u dont need to edit or create a xorg.conf or something to run the driver correct and u need no blacklistedit too! if u did the standard opensuse 11.3 install its only about 2 kernel packages and the disabling of the x11noveau driver.
1. after standard installing opensuse 11.3 update and install the opensuse softwareupdates
2. install with the yast software re/installer:
(from Desktop or from the terminal. the terminal text command is: yast2)
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u dont need to change the menu.lst after all, only u get many problems. run the midnight commander and delete the nomodeset word and the noveau driver would be normally still active after reboot.
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Jan 30, 2011
I tried to install suse 11.3 but every time the system shut down in the install process it never finish
I think that the FAN does not work
I have an Acer Aspire 5720z
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Feb 2, 2011
Tried to install Gnome after the minimal server (console based) install.I would like to install a graphical GUI now What to do? wich packages? tried zypper gnome-desktop (or something similar) but it wasn't enough.
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Jun 14, 2010
If I install the factory release now, can I easily convert my system to a normal 11.3 point release later, after 11.3 is out? If so, how would I do it? (11.2 has an issue that affects me. It's fixed in 11.3 already, so I have to use 11.3 if I'm going to use openSUSE.)
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Jul 18, 2010
In /var/log/warn I can see :Code:Jul 18 19:29:41 Linux1 SuSEfirewall2: Warning: config 'vsftpd' not available I did install vsftpd, but I removed it and install pure-ftpd instead.
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May 8, 2009
I tried to search the internet to find out the documentation for setting up rsh on my opensuse 11.1 but was unable to find one. So i 'm posting this to help others. I know it is preferrable to use ssh instead of rsh but oracle requires use of rsh. So please dont get back to me saying "use ssh".Note to moderator: I tried to add this to "how to" section but in vain due to "no permissions error".
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Jan 8, 2010
How can I install the WMP300N driver into the network install disk so that I can connect to the network to install Open Suse ?
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