problem with installation

[Sunny123_1]

Hi Nuwan

Now problem solved about installation.I have installed opensuse 11.But now another problem after boot it gives error "unable to find root partition"."Unable to find swap partition" and then it comes to $ promt.I can see directories like etc,dev,bin,sbin.But i didn't find system directory in /dev.

Waiting for your reply.

Regards
Sunny

[Sunny123_1]

Hi all

Waiting for your reply.


Regards
Sunny

[Nuwan Alwis]

Hi Sunny,
What did u do exactly?
if you reinstalled suse 11, did you create the partitions at the install time.
if you did so this means the installer was unable to add appropriate entries to your fstab.
I guess this happens if you use existing partitions without reformatting them.

at the $ prompt try to check what are the fstab entries you have there also "df" out put.
let me know the status.

Good Luck..!

[Sunny123_1]

Hi Nuwan

Thanks for your reply.

When i use df it shows
df not found.

Even if commands like more ,man it shows not found.


Regards
Sunny

[Sunny123_1]

Hi Nuwan

Waiting for your reply.

Regards
Sunny

[Nuwan Alwis]

Hi Sunny,
This means you have no mounted filesystem. If you were able to reinstall the system again i dont know how this happen.
1) Were you able to reinstall suse recently?(yesterday/day before yesterday/2days back????)

if so how did you instlled it?

2)Is your windows OS working now?

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[Sunny123_1]

Hi Nuwan

Yes i reinstalled suse on Sunday.
Windows OS is also working fine.
One more thing there is no fstab file in etc directory.other files are there like mnttab,passwd etc but fstab is not there.

Regards
Sunny

[Sunny123_1]

Hi

I installed it normally after 100% it comes to $ promt problem is already discussed above.

Regards
Sunny

[Nuwan Alwis]

Hi sunny,
i assume that you rebooted system after the installation.
If your fstab is no there of course you will be end up with a command prompt because the kernel has completed the initial phase and need to mount the file system to continue the process.
I dont know how or why it didnt create fstab.
I suggest you to do a reformat all the partitions with different file system and try out the same.

[Sunny123_1]

Hi Nuwan

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Can you give me a step by step procedure???
means to reformat all drives and with different filesystem.


Regards
Sunny

[Nuwan Alwis]

Hi Sunny,
Wel, Its not easy to explain what u asking because i cant exactly remember the installer screens but ill try.
1) During the installation it asks on what partition you want to install suse.
2) Then it ask if u want to follow the default file system layout or a custom layout
3) There you select custom layout and create your own fs structure. and this point you can select if its to be on riserfs or ext3.
4)use ext3 and proceed.

if i have time ill upload some screens.

[Sunny123_1]

Hi Nuwan

Appreciate if you could give me the screen shots of the installation

Thanks& Regards
Sunny

[Sunny123_1]

Hi all

Thanx for your replyies.I have reinstalled opensuse 11.1.

Regards
Sunny

[Sunny123_1]

Hi all

Thanx for your replyies.I have reinstalled opensuse 11.1.

Regards
Sunny