Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

** Reply to message from Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> on Thu, 01 Nov 2007
11:58:40 -0400


On 2007/11/01 17:06 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed:

from Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:17:42 -0400

On 2007/11/01 14:55 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed:

GRUB seems still OK to be, it points to a stage-2 loader
which is at sector 0x1973e28 (which is inside /dev/sda6 somewhere).

(GRUB, I should add occupies its own small (7MB) EXT2 partition, sda7.

GRUB stageX @PSN : 0x01973e28 Located on : /dev/hda6

So, all is apparently as it should be, and I can't tell why it does not boot

It's above my understanding why Grub needs to be in two partitions, so maybe
a DFSee 'part -b-' report would be useful.

There you have me, I didn't know about being in two places. I also don't know
about a "part -b report". Do you mean the DFSDISK report? I can send it as an
attachment easily.

The references to both /dev/sda7 and /dev/hda6 and sda7 would seem to imply
there are at least two disks on which at least portions of Grub might be
found, or maybe one disk with multiple device names.

I'm sorry, that is the result of my clumsiness. There is only one HD, and it is
a SATA drive. The DFSee report came back naming "hda" in both places above, and
I replaced one of the instances with "sda" as I was mulling over the
significance of what appears to be an error of some sort. I forgot to change it
back when I sent my note to this forum.

The only "hda" on the machine is the CD/DVD drive. That is a certain, as you
can see from the fact that, when I need to unmount the CD/DVD drive in order to
eject a disk, my command is "umount /dev/hda".

The onscreen report from simply starting DFSee ends with a chart listing
partitions and their characteristics. The one you get from running DFSee in
Linux instead of DOS, doz or OS/2 is a bit different. From Linux, on the
command line after starting DFSee you run 'part -b-' to get a chart identical
to the one provided by the other varieties by default. It's essentially an
amplified version of output from 'fdisk -l <diskdevice>' for all accessible
disks.

I ran DFSee v9.xx from OS/2, because that is the only way I can do it. The
whole problem, of course, is that I can't access Linux. I do not have a DFSee
v9.xx bootable disk, but I do have one for v8.02, but I am sure this earlier
version does not give a much detail as the new v9.xx does. Do you want me to
run DFSDISK with DFSee v8? Or some other report? Nothing would be easier, just
say the word.

I have an Ubuntu disk, which I think can run live. I have never used it for
anything. I am assuming that if I boot from it, I could run the Linux DFSee v8
-- but I also assume that I would need a second CD/DVD drive to do this.

But could I boot the openSuSE DVD to "Rescue", then remove the DVD and insert
the DFSee DVD to run the utility? If so, which partitions would I need to
mount, if any?

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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel


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