OpenSUSE Install :: GRUN Dominates, And Is Taking Over Everything?
Apr 6, 2010
I currently have opensuse 11.2 - gnome installed on my laptop ( Toshiba Satellite m45-s265).I am trying to boot oof of my opensuse 11.2 DVD (32-bit) and its just not happening. For this particular computer I have to hit f10 upon startup to chose where I boot from. I chose cd-rom, it goes to bootsplash. I even went as far to adjust my BIOS settings to boot directly from CD, grub - bootsplash screen. When I initially installed 11.2 I never had this problem. I have never messed with grub, or BIOS on this cpu before.
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Dec 11, 2009
11.2 doesn't install Grub in the MBR by default, more precisely it doesn't highlight that choice during setup. But in fact it does occasionally (?) install Grub in the MBR, even when explicitely instructed not to do so. I'm starting to better understand people wondering why their Ubuntu vanished from bootmenu and swearing they did not install Grub in MBR. I'm quite sure I already experienced this issue with 11.1 as well as while installing my first 11.2. Now I decided to install 11.2 on another machine and pay double attention. I normally DON'T install openSUSE Grub in MBR. Somebody has to go in there and at the moment, I prefer to have Ubuntu's Grub2. I ran the installation twice. The first time, I added the root partition to the default location, which was in this case the extended partition's bootsector (sda4). The second time, I simply didn't touch anything. According to setup, the bootloder was supposed to get in the extended partition. I carefully copied down what the setup screen said. Here's :
BootingBoot Loader Type: GRUB
Status Location: /dev/sda4 (extended)
Change Location:Boot from MBR is disabled (enable)
Boot from "/" partition is disabled (enable)
I installed, rebooted and ended up with openSUSE Grub in MBR. Well, my partition tables are not the most usual ones. The first primary is always a 252MB FAT16. Second and third primaries are Unix. The extended partition is full of logical ones used for different Linux distros. At the end on the logical partitions, the Linux kernel adds up devices for the Unix slices found in the the other primaries after it read the FreeBSD disklabels (but not during setup). Maybe this is just my unconventional partitioning that openSUSE setup doesnt' like. However is that a reason for taking over my MBR ? Since I suspect I might not be the only one experiencing this problem (according to some threads), I thought I would report this behaviour.
BTW I just installed a Fedora 12 on the same kind of machine. It would have written its bootloader into MBR (by default) but respected my choice as I selected the root partition instead. I'm going to install openSUSE on that machine as well, deselect the extended partition and choose only the root partition as destination for Grub.
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I have 2 hard drives and when I do an auto install.. Ubuntu decides to take both hard drives... how do I prevent this from happening without my intervention?
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Jul 27, 2010
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i want to install ubuntu on hdd 1 - 26G partition now when i start the installer in partitions it shows me serial ata RAID pdc_cbac (stripe) ... 498G. i cant chose from dropdown any of the 2 hdd. when i enter manual partitioning it shows me the partition as i listed them, in a raid volume dev mapper pdc_cbac...
now i disabled 1 hdd in bios (2 one); i checked that is disabled trough a dos boot loader... it is... now when i enter install partition, the disabled hdd its still there and the raid volume same, unchanged.
why is this happening? why cant i see my 2 hdd in partitioner drop down menu? how can i install without physically taking out 2-nd hdd? see the picture; the freespace at the mouse pinter is in fact a ntfs partition on hdd2, hdd that is disabled in bios [URL]
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I know other threads have raised similar issues to mine but I haven't been able to find in them a solution to my problem...
My laptop cannot complete its Ubuntu One sync - the syncdaemon never stops running at 100%. After a few hours, I give up and kill it off.
It writes large amounts to .cache/ubuntuone/log/syncdaemon.log for a while but then stops writing anything, even though it continues running at 100%.
Whilst it is working so hard (doing nothing?), the file manager is virtually unusable.
The problem started when I (a) installed Magicicada and (b) added another 700Mb folder to my synced folders.
My desktop PC doesn't have this problem. They are both very similar Ubuntu installations except it has a conventional hard disk whereas the problem laptop has SSD.
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Searching for Boot Record from USB RMD-FDD ..OK, with 00 on very right Nothing more, so I left that, and ran
dd if=caine1.5.iso of=/dev/sdb1
and just stuck an iso on the beginning of the drive, hit F11, and the usb drive appears in the boot menu. All good; Select to boot from that. Surely an iso is a safe thing to boot from?. Yet I get the very same Searching for Boot Record from USB RMD-FDD. .OK, with 00 on very right and nopthing else - nada.
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4-7% is (not) much and I would like to hear whether your X server is taking any cpu power and how much. do you have any ideas how to improve this or is this something I have to live with? I am using vanilla slackware 13.1, gnome slackbuild and kernel 2.6.38. I tried playing with Xorg.conf but it did not help at all. I activated "composite" extension through xorg.conf but nothing changed.
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# lspci | grep -iE '(vga|display)'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
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My partition is: /dev/sda7.
I created a folder in media: /media/8g
The file system is: ext2 (Do I need the "defults" instruction? What does this do?)
errors=remount-ro (I think I understand this)
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He also said, after this was all done, to enter the command: sudo mount /media/[my new partition]
Since it's already mounted? What does this command accomplish?
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Mar 14, 2010
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If I try to use any other package or software management tool this is what it tells me, basically I think that ubuntu tweek has taken over and will not allow anything to update the system any more pls help?
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I am using VLC 1.1.9 on a Dell Latitude D600 with Ubuntu 11.04 and it is taking over my system. Every time I try to open a folder or a file VLC opens instead. I can dig down from "computer" to the folder or file but every other item from the "places" drop down menu will open VLC even if the folder is empty or contains non media files. I uninstalled VLC and the problem disappeared - naturally - but reappeared as soon as I reinstalled VLC. This doesn't happen on my AspireOne which also runs Ubuntu 11.04. Other than hardware,the only difference in the two machines that I can think might affect it is that the Dell has an upgraded version from Maverick whereas the netbook has a clean install of Naty. My only other thought was that is this an Intel / AMD thing as the Aspire has the netbook standard intel gfx chipset whilst the D600 uses an old ATI 9000 series gfx chipset and I did have to install some AMD 2d libs to get it to run smoothly. However I think that might be grasping at straws.
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Mar 24, 2010
I'm trying to dual boot a server with Windows 2008 R2 and RHEL 5.4. I've done these dual boots 20 or more times in the last few months, and never had a problem. (This is the first time I've tried it with R2, mind you.) I do the normal install Windows on one drive, then install RHEL on another. The first time it reboots after the install (which is still part of the install, as it's my kickstart script prompting the install and it still has post to run), it goes to the grub menu, and I can select RHEL and it boots into it fine. After that, if I reboot it just goes directly into Windows, without seeing grub at all.
I've tried pressing esc, shift, various things in case it's hidden, with no luck (also, I have a 30 second timeout set and it's not sitting there that long). I've tried editing the grub.conf to remove Windows entirely, and it still just goes into Windows. I've reinstalled RHEL 3 times (yay for kickstart files!), and this exact behaviour happens every time. Does anyone have any idea of what might be going on here
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root@strych ~# dd if=/dev/zero of=1GFile -bs=10M count=100
dd: bad operand `-bs=10M'
I mean what, I've done that many times before! Then I noticed that some commands started to behave this way:
root@strych ~# ls --help
--help: No such file or directory
On the other hand...
root@strych ~# fish --help
fish - the friendly interactive shell
or
root@strych ~# apt-get --help
apt 0.8.6 dla i386 skompilowany Oct 4 2010 11:55:22
Usage: apt-get [options] command
apt-get [options] install
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I went from about a 30 second total boot to almost a minute to the login screen
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Cpu(s): 0.8%us, 1.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3062244k total, 523208k used, 2539036k free, 31580k buffers
Swap: 5111800k total, 0k used, 5111800k free, 206328k cached
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May 28, 2011
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Aug 21, 2011
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