On December 29, 2007 10:27:24 am Stan Goodman wrote: > ** Reply to message from Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 > 14:39:48 -0400 > > In brief, this is about recovery from a failed update of openSuSE from > v10.2 to v10.3. I am sorry that I have had to wait so long since the event > happened (in late Novermber), and thus break the train of thought of those > who were helping me. The urgent matters that distracted me have been > resolved, and I am free to continue. > > > I'm back now from my absence, and have attended to some of the crises > > that have popped up while I was away. I'm ready to attack the matter of > > my failed update to opensuse v10.3. What I have in mind is to install a > > maintenance copy of v10.3 into part of the now unused space on my HD, and > > to use it to retrieve the contents of the /home directory from the failed > > update. See below my plans for what to do after that. I would be very > > happy for any comments. > > Today I installed a maintenance copy of v10.3 in a formerly unused 10GB of > the HD. That installation seems to work properly, but I don't understand > why the boot sequence is as it is: > > The maintenance copy has but one partition in addition to SWAP. In setting > up the installation, I was very careful to arrange that GRUB be installed > in the root partition, rather than the MBR. After setting the configuration > and before confirming actual installation, I verified that this was the > case. I expected therefore that the boot sequence would be: OS/2 Boot > Manager, followed by whatever line of BM is chosen. What actually happens > is as follows: > > 1) openSuSE (maintenance partition) Welcome screen, with its list of > choices 2) I choose "Boot from Hard Disk" > 3) OS/2 Boot Manager > 4) (after appropriate choice) openSuSE (maintenance) flash screen > > In other words, the installation has created its own boot manager BEFORE > the OS/2 Boot Manager. What has happened? How to correct this? > > When I undo that, and get the boot sequence right, I will go ahead to the > original problem.
In the late 90's and early 2000s I ran both OS/2 and its successor, eCS. While both Linux and OS/2 have LVM systems there are as I remember large incompatibilities between the two systems, requiring especial care when installing a boot manager. I never tried to triple boot Linux, Os/2 and Windoze, but I remember posts cautioning those doing so to do the partitioning first with OS/2's fdisk or DFSEE, and then get the OS/2 Boot Manager to hand off to GRUB or LILO. If you like I'll try to retrieve some of those old posts.... Bob. -- Bob Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
