Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

On Thursday 01 November 2007 12:52:53 pm Stan Goodman wrote:

+---+--+-----------------+--+--------+--------+-----------+----------+--------+
|ID |Dr|Type, description|ux|Format |Related |VolumeLabel|LVM Volume|Size MiB|
+---+--<disk 1></dev/hda >--------+--------+-----------<[ D1 ] >--------+
|01>| |Prim 0a IBM-BMGR | 2|BMGR |LVM |I13Xneeded |., BootMan| 7.8|
|02 | |Log 82 SunS/SWAP| 5|SWAP |LinuxV1 |SWAPSPACE2 |, LinuxSwa| 502.0|
|03 | |Log 83 LinuxNatv| 6|XFS |Linux | |SuSE, SuSE| 50007.0|
|04*| |Log 83 LinuxNatv| 7|EXT2 |GRUB | |SuSE v10.2| 7.8|
|05 | |FreeSpace Logical| |-- -- --|-- -- --|- - - - - -| | 21987.4|
|05*|C:|Log 07 Inst-FSys| 8|HPFS |IBM 4.50|ECS |eCS v1.1, | 1004.0|
|06 |D:|Log 35 Warp-LVM | 9|JFS |IBM 4.50| |OS/2 Apps,| 1506.1|
|07 |H:|Log 35 Warp-LVM |10|JFS |IBM 4.50|INFO |Info, Info| 2502.3|
|08 |W:|Log 35 Warp-LVM |11|JFS |IBM 4.50|DATAFILES |DataFiles,| 1004.0|
+---+--+-----------------+--+--------+--------+-----------+----------+--------+
= Active/Startable * = Bootable r = Removable R = Removable+Active/Bootable

There is another option.
You can resize partition ID 4 to some 10 GB,
format with ext3 and install 10.3 as a rescue system where you will have all
tools available. Boot loader should be installed in boot sector of partition
like current.

Yet another option is to use grub prompt that you have:
grub>
to repair boot configuration.

Some tips can be picked up from:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:The_Boot_Manager_Grub
and
http://en.opensuse.org/GRUB
has few usefull links.

The Ubuntu disk can be used to mount /dev/sda6 (ID 03) and see what is installed
in /boot and /boot/grub directories. If it works like Knoppix than partition should
be already mounted as read only and presented as icons on desktop.

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Regards,
Rajko.
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