Hello to all. I've just installed OpenSuse 13 on my multi-boot desktop. The install appears to have gone well up until the point where the installer is attempting to configure the boot loader. At this point it hangs, for a very long time.
With OpenSuse the installation took about 2 hours. In my experience this is an extremely long time. Most unusual. Anyhow, after waiting patiently for the install to finish setting up the boot loader I finally caved and pressed the reset button. I had simply run out of patience. I know how to rescue my system so no big deal.
During the installation question and answer session I was careful to select the root partition, /dev/sdb17 (yes, you read right) for OpenSuse's boot loader. I am a Fedora user and I wanted Fedora's GRUB2 to continue handling booting of all installed OS's. Apparently this selection was ignored. When I pressed reset and the system came back up grub was hosed. I fixed that and got my boot loader back.
Now that my system was restored to working condition it was time to see if I could get OpenSuse to boot. Fedora's grub2-mkconfig added an entry for OpenSuse so I rebooted and booted OpenSuse. The system booted without issue but I can't log in. This is where my dilemma starts. Apparently there are no users on this OpenSuse system even though I created a regular user and a separate root user during the question and answer pre-install session.
I remember creating a user "glenn" with my usual home password and a separate root user. I don't remember if I was asked at that point to create a root password.
I really don't want to reinstall OpenSuse.
Is there any way for me to create a user now?
Can I run a post-install "firstboot" type of script?
Could I chroot into OpenSuse from Fedora and do some sort of configuration?
Is this something that is not uncommon with OpenSuse installations?
Hope I'm fairly coherent. Had a few too may beers tonight :P
Thanks for your consideration. I hope to be checking out a working OpenSuse system soon!
With OpenSuse the installation took about 2 hours. In my experience this is an extremely long time. Most unusual. Anyhow, after waiting patiently for the install to finish setting up the boot loader I finally caved and pressed the reset button. I had simply run out of patience. I know how to rescue my system so no big deal.
During the installation question and answer session I was careful to select the root partition, /dev/sdb17 (yes, you read right) for OpenSuse's boot loader. I am a Fedora user and I wanted Fedora's GRUB2 to continue handling booting of all installed OS's. Apparently this selection was ignored. When I pressed reset and the system came back up grub was hosed. I fixed that and got my boot loader back.
Now that my system was restored to working condition it was time to see if I could get OpenSuse to boot. Fedora's grub2-mkconfig added an entry for OpenSuse so I rebooted and booted OpenSuse. The system booted without issue but I can't log in. This is where my dilemma starts. Apparently there are no users on this OpenSuse system even though I created a regular user and a separate root user during the question and answer pre-install session.
I remember creating a user "glenn" with my usual home password and a separate root user. I don't remember if I was asked at that point to create a root password.
I really don't want to reinstall OpenSuse.
Is there any way for me to create a user now?
Can I run a post-install "firstboot" type of script?
Could I chroot into OpenSuse from Fedora and do some sort of configuration?
Is this something that is not uncommon with OpenSuse installations?
Hope I'm fairly coherent. Had a few too may beers tonight :P
Thanks for your consideration. I hope to be checking out a working OpenSuse system soon!