Re: [opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

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.

My guess is that you have the wrong partition marked as bootable.

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

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
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