Re: [opensuse] [Unsuccessful installation of operating system]

At 01:57:43 on Friday Friday 8 October 2010, Felix Miata
<mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2010/10/05 13:10 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/

ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/device.map-11_1 says 11.1's grub found a
Hitachi 250G HD as 2nd HD, and an older IBM or Hitachi HD as 1st HD.

ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/menu.lst-11_1 confirms 11.1's root was on 6th
partition on 2nd HD, while telling that 10.3 was on 6th partition on
the 1st HD.

ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/device.map-11_3 says 11.3's grub found a
Seagate 250G HD as 1st HD, and the same Hitachi 250G HD as 2nd that
11.1 found.

ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/menu.lst-11_3 confirms 11.3's root was on 6th
partition on 1st HD, while telling that 11.1 was on the 6th partition
on the 2nd HD.

ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/fdisk tells us that both disks are same size
and have identical Linux partition layout, but show that partition
table entries on both disks are in a different order, plus the HD
fdisk says is sdb has a FAT32 partition following IBM Boot Manager and
the Linux partitions.

ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/DFSWORK.LOG shows us the the two HDs are
currently presented by the BIOS in reverse logical order of what they
were at the time their SUSEs were installed, with 11.1 living on the
1st HD and 11.3 living on the 2nd HD.

It's no wonder booting from the existing menu.lsts is not possible, but
proper Grub prompt commands succeed in starting SUSE boot. It _looks_
like all that would have been required to fix the problem would have
been to swap cables between the two SATA disks, but also swapping the
HD order in the BIOS might accomplish the same thing as a cable swap,
and could be the reason leading to this thread's OP.

I chose to switch the HD cables. The result is that booting hangs exactly
as before, but sda6 and sdb6 are now exchanged.

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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