Help me repair SuSE partition

Pet3M0ss · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2025 8:57 am Post subject: Help me repair SuSE partition

With JP on a holiday, I feel kinda lonely posting my dumb moves Embarassed

I tried to install SLAX into a lonely partition using the installer. It would hang on the boot and freeze. I had to use SMart Boot floppy to get a SuperGRUB disk to boot and could not quite figure how to make that work right. Idea

I used the SuperGRUB to just uninstall GRUB and booted the SuSE install disk to run "repair" which it did ...........sorta!

PC boots OK, but I reach a command line to log into SuSE. Running "startx" does not work - recommends I go to the Xorg folks online. xorgconfig has not helped- settings for monitor, mouse, etc.

I can get the YaST to work from the command line. Yast is in a text format, but I can get around in it. Things LOOK OK (window managers all set at defaults), so I am not certain where to go from here. Maybe some "runlevel" isn't right, but I don't want to make things worse by experimenting too much.

Would the SLAX have done something besides messing up the GRUB??

Any help appreciated

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SuSE 9.3
Kanotix-Lite
Damn Small Linux
BeatrIX 2025.1
Slax Live CD

coastie · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2025 5:25 pm Post subject:

it sounds like a runlevel issue to me too. when i installed slax on the lappy, it hosed my grub as well. after i fixed it, i don't have that nifty little splash screen. check your menu.lst file.

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mushroom · 10.1-32 & 64 bit

Pet3M0ss · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2025 11:34 pm Post subject:

don't laugh, mushroom, some day you too will be old Razz

I don't fully understand the GRUB's scope. By what Coastie reports, the menu.lst could be edited to start KDE??

Can I access the menu.lst through YaST?? When I get into menu.lst, what part of the script would wake up the KDE??

I have to be gone for a couple days before I can experiment.

Thanks for the tips.

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SuSE 9.3
Kanotix-Lite
Damn Small Linux
BeatrIX 2025.1
Slax Live CD

Pet3M0ss · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2025 12:05 pm Post subject: SOLVED It

Hey, I am recovered!! Not a GRUB problem after all. I tried to use xorgconfig with no results. Finally booted up, went into the text mode of YaST. It's more complicated than mushroom would have me believe-- I had to use the TAB key as well as arrows and enter!!

Anyway, in System -> /etc/sysconfig Editor -> System -> SuSE Config -> the default setting of "yes" for the " CWD_IN_USER_PATH" had changed to "no". A return to the default "yes" was all it took.

Don't know how a SLAX install could have changed that, but after restoring the GRUB, all it took was as simple return to a default setting to get me back in business. Very Happy

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SuSE 9.3
Kanotix-Lite
Damn Small Linux
BeatrIX 2025.1
Slax Live CD

mushroom · 10.1-32 & 64 bit

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