[colug-432] openSUSE 12.1 GRUB Loading Hangs

[R S Prigan]

Of course, if the MBR on sda is borked, you'll need to reinstall that from
the installation that you have controlling it ...

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:20 AM, R S Prigan <lordscotus1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have observed difficulties chaining a partition bootsector with GRUB 2
> from GRUB Legacy.
>
> Try booting into the new 12.1 by using your existing grub command line
> (setting root, kernel, initrd appropriately), then install Grub legacy in
> place of GRUB 2 in the 12.1 install.
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Stephen P Molnar <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>
>> I sent the following message to the openSUSE list, but have received no
>> reply.  I hope to find help a bit closer to home, hence this message.
>>
>> I have a 64bit AMD CPU with 3MB Ram and 4 HD’s and have been running
>> openSUSE11.2 on a the system which boots into either openSUSE 10.3 or
>> 11.2.
>>
>> I have just done a new installation of 12.1 from the DVD to the 4th HD on
>> the system with sdd1 as / and hdd2 as home.  In fact I had to install the
>> system twice as the first time I didn’t use the auto configuration and
>> for a
>> reason unknown t me the boot hung a rebooting.
>>
>> The second time I used the automatic configuration and received neither
>> warning nor error messages during the installation and the system rebooted
>> at the appropriate dime during the installation.  I was even able to
>> change
>> the user to root after the installation was complete.  However, when I
>> rebooted the system from the root directory the boot process showed:
>>
>> GRUB Loading stage 1.5,  but hung on
>> GRUB Loading, please wait . . .
>>
>> Oh yes, I told the installer to put the boot loader in /, not the MBR.
>>
>> I was able to reboot into openSUSE 10.3 by mounting the 11.2 DVD and
>> running
>> the installation process to the repair page.  I Can mount the 12.1 DVD on
>> the system
>>
>> While I was able to boot into 12.1 it looked as if it was running well.
>>
>> Any assistance will be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.                                          Life is
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>>
>>
>>
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