On 2007/10/30 00:50 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed: > When the first reboot happened, I left the DVD in the drive, which I am sure > is > correct. After the reboot, what came up was the installers main screen, > offering the choice of booting from the Hard Disk, Installation, etc. Choosing > "Installation" brings me back to the beginning of the upgrade process > (language, accept the conditions, etc.), which I do not think is where I want > to be. In other words, I appear to have lost the thread of the upgrade > process. > I hope someone will explain to me why this has happened, and what I can do > about it.
> Removing the DVD and rebooting causes a black screen to come up, with a prompt > like "grub >". In other words, the upgrade process has decided on its own > initiative to install GRUB in the Master Boot Sector. This is dirty pool: When > I first installed v10..2, I put GRUB into a very small partition all by > itself; > I did this for a very good reason, and I was allowed to do it, and there is > something very wrong with the upgrader/installer moving it about in this way > without asking me. I'll fix this, but it should not have happened. It appears the correct choice in your case must be to leave the DVD in the drive, but to either do nothing, in which case it will attempt to boot the HD, or to select to boot the HD, and then to nothing more than answer questions until after it finishes booting from the HD and finalizing installation. 10.3 is more like a .0 release than any I can remember, mostly because of massive changes to Xorg and video drivers that makes it a poor decision on the part of several distros to have released new versions in the September/October 2007 period, include Mandriva and Ubuntu in addition to OpenSUSE. You'll probably have to specify your hardware, particularly video, before much in the way of meaningful help can be offered. -- "The basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. President Harry S. Truman Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
