On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 21:21 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2007 12:32:21 Dave Howorth wrote: > > I'm trying to install 10.3 on a 4-year old 32-bit machine. I don't do > > enough installs to remember all the gotchas, so it's always a fraught > > process if anything goes wrong :( > > > > I blew a 10.3 DVD, verified it and ran the installer. It all went > > happily and eventually started installing the packages so I went home > > and left it to it. This morning I came in to find > > > > Missing operating system > > The 10.3 system installs the boot loader to the partition containing /boot, > leaving a standard MBR that does nothing except hand over to the partition > marked "bootable" in the partition table.
Thanks for this. It's useful. Is there anywhere I can read more? > My guess is that you have the wrong partition marked as bootable. I don't think so. The /boot partition is marked bootable on that disk and the other disk has a partition with the dreaded lilo marked bootable. I don't see any evidence that either is being reached. > Boot the rescur system, run fdisk -l, and see which partition has a * in the > Boot column. If it's the wrong one, you can change it with the "a" command in > fdisk > > On the other hand, if it's the right one, there is something wrong with your > MBR. You can use YaST to set this by enabling the option to install a > standard MBR in the bootloader installation section Agreed, I'd already launched the rescue system and used cfdisk to check the bootable partitions :) On Monday, I'll find time to try patching the MBR but I'll use the grub-based method I found on a web page first. Given that the Suse installer / YaST messed it up in the first place, and that Suse's repair system is broken, I don't trust it to fix it! Once the illusion of magic is shattered, I prefer to get my hands into the dirt and see just what's there. > You should however be able to finish your install by booting the installation > system again and selecting "boot installed system" when it asks you what you > want to do. Once it completes you can log in, run YaST, and reinstall the > boot loader, with the correct option > > But try fdisk first > > Anders Thanks Anders. I'll let you know how it goes on Monday. > Madness takes its toll Ain't that the truth! Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
