This is more of a gripe, no help really needed.
I thought I was doing good, but ended up really screwing things up. I
was trying to upgrade a openSUSE box and have a backup of the original
just in case things went terribly wrong.
I put in another hard drive of the same size, booted from DVD, res
it sounds like you have had some kind of hardware failure. no matter what
after a reboot if your cd/dvd rom drive were sound and you had known good
media to boot from hd or no hd it should have booted. It sounds to me like
at the very least you have a bad (or at least going downhill) optical driv
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Paul Boniol wrote:
> This is more of a gripe, no help really needed.
>
> I thought I was doing good, but ended up really screwing things up. I
> was trying to upgrade a openSUSE box and have a backup of the original
> just in case things went terribly wrong.
>
>
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Kent Perrier wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Paul Boniol wrote:
>>
>> This is more of a gripe, no help really needed.
>>
>> I thought I was doing good, but ended up really screwing things up. I
>> was trying to upgrade a openSUSE box and have a backup of
I would suggest disconnecting the second drive and then try loading the
box. It has been quite a while, but I seem to recall having that same
battle many months ago. Best I remember things were confused when both
drives were in place. Might be worth moving everything over the network
to another
You might want to try moving the old drive into an external case, with an USB
or FireWire interface, and not connect it until after you have successfully
booted from the new drive.
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:27 PM, wrote:
> You might want to try moving the old drive into an external case, with an USB
> or FireWire interface, and not connect it until after you have successfully
> booted from the new drive.
>
Good thought.
I've had issues with two drives (tested on two com