** Reply to message from Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:34:19 -0400
> 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. Hi, Felix!! > 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. The DVD is not in the drive now. I removed it because At boot, the installers screen appeared as expected; I selected "Boot from hard disk"; Black screen with GRUB prompt appeared, because the installer had made its own GRUB in the MBR. I am certain that it did not consult me about doing this. Since it had been behaving as an upgrade, I do not think the question of where to put GRUB would haqve had any meaning. > 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. Specifying the hardware is very easy: This is an Intel board, 915GAV, with everything on board, specifically the video. There are no cards in the slots. I think I need to bite the bullet, and just make an initial installation. Do you agree? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel Idiotic commercials heard on CNN, #4: "On January 20, the balance of power will change hands." -- for CNN Current Events -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
