I have observed difficulties chaining a partition bootsector with GRUB 2 from GRUB Legacy.<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Scott<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Stephen P Molnar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I sent the following message to the openSUSE list, but have received no<br>
reply. I hope to find help a bit closer to home, hence this message.<br>
<br>
I have a 64bit AMD CPU with 3MB Ram and 4 HD’s and have been running<br>
openSUSE11.2 on a the system which boots into either openSUSE 10.3 or 11.2.<br>
<br>
I have just done a new installation of 12.1 from the DVD to the 4th HD on<br>
the system with sdd1 as / and hdd2 as home. In fact I had to install the<br>
system twice as the first time I didn’t use the auto configuration and for a<br>
reason unknown t me the boot hung a rebooting.<br>
<br>
The second time I used the automatic configuration and received neither<br>
warning nor error messages during the installation and the system rebooted<br>
at the appropriate dime during the installation. I was even able to change<br>
the user to root after the installation was complete. However, when I<br>
rebooted the system from the root directory the boot process showed:<br>
<br>
GRUB Loading stage 1.5, but hung on<br>
GRUB Loading, please wait . . .<br>
<br>
Oh yes, I told the installer to put the boot loader in /, not the MBR.<br>
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I was able to reboot into openSUSE 10.3 by mounting the 11.2 DVD and running<br>
the installation process to the repair page. I Can mount the 12.1 DVD on<br>
the system<br>
<br>
While I was able to boot into 12.1 it looked as if it was running well.<br>
<br>
Any assistance will be much appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance.<br>
<br>
<br>
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a<br>
fuzzy set<br>
Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic<br>
and multivariate<br>
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