PenguinLust
July 13th, 2014, 10:32 PM
Install seems to have pooched the system. I just installed 12.04LTS over an openSUSE installation on my AMD64 and not much seems to work. Most importantly, the network doesn't work. I think the reason is that the wrong kernel modules are installed. When I type uname -a I get told that the kernel is 3.4.63-44.desktop, but when I look at the contents of /lib/modules all I see is "3.2.0-23-generic".
I selected the "something else" option in the install, because I didn't want to "install alongside openSUSE" nor did I want to do a fresh install that seemed to promise to wipe out my home directory! So I choose something else, then simply selected the old root partition as my root partition and the old home partition as my home partition. All these file systems are ext4 and I didn't opt to format anything. Well, when I started it, I found that installing the proprietary nVidia drivers didn't work and that's probably because the network didn't work. I was unable to get any network action (no sign of Ethernet life when I typed ifconfig -a) and when I tried modproble r8169, it gave me some sort of error about module misconfiguration. That's when I realized I had the wrong modules.
Oh another thing: I don't get a boot menu. At first I get the openSUSE splash screen for a split second, then Ubuntu starts. I'll bet I could have gotten somewhere if I got a boot menu.
Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to fix any of these problems by hand.
Edit: and I'm pretty sure I selected /dev/sda as the device for the "boot loader installation"
I selected the "something else" option in the install, because I didn't want to "install alongside openSUSE" nor did I want to do a fresh install that seemed to promise to wipe out my home directory! So I choose something else, then simply selected the old root partition as my root partition and the old home partition as my home partition. All these file systems are ext4 and I didn't opt to format anything. Well, when I started it, I found that installing the proprietary nVidia drivers didn't work and that's probably because the network didn't work. I was unable to get any network action (no sign of Ethernet life when I typed ifconfig -a) and when I tried modproble r8169, it gave me some sort of error about module misconfiguration. That's when I realized I had the wrong modules.
Oh another thing: I don't get a boot menu. At first I get the openSUSE splash screen for a split second, then Ubuntu starts. I'll bet I could have gotten somewhere if I got a boot menu.
Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to fix any of these problems by hand.
Edit: and I'm pretty sure I selected /dev/sda as the device for the "boot loader installation"