[Tfug] SUSE Grub problem

[Earl J Violet]

Thank you Chris. I'll give it a try later. Still a lot to learn.

Earl

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:40:58 -0700 "Christopher Robbins"
<robbinsc at gmail.com> writes:
> Earl -
> 
> Have you tried rebuilding grub?  It looks liike something got 
> fubar-ed in
> the install.  Place CD1 in the drive and when you run through the 
> grahpical
> installer, you should see a debug/fix/repair option.  Do that and 
> either
> 
> A.) Run automatic repair, which scans EVERYTHING, or
> 
> B.) Do an expert repair and select "grub/bootloader repair"
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> -Chris
> 
> On 4/18/06, Earl J Violet <earljviolet at juno.com> wrote:
> >
> > Last evening/night I attempted to install FreeSUSE 10.0.
> >
> > Here are the machine specs:
> >
> > dual PII 300
> > Video = S3 Trio 32/64
> > Monitor = IBM P200
> > Sound = Creative Audio PCI (ES1371, ES1373) (WDM)
> > Ethernet = D-Link DFE-530TX-PCI
> > CD ROM = BTC BCE 1610M
> > hard drive = ST320413A
> >
> > The hard drive is labeled 20 GB so is probably about 18 Real GB. 
> The BIOS
> > (AMI) only recognizes 8000 MB or so of it. I have Win2K installed 
> on this
> > partition. I installed SUSE on the remaining in 3 partitions / = 
> 2GB,
> > swap = 1 GB, /usr = 7GB.
> >
> > I ran the install and it went fine. It recognized all of the 
> hardware and
> > configured the sound card ... so it said.
> >
> > But it didn't find the DSL ... UBUNTU, KUBUNTU, and WIN2K found it 
> OK and
> > hooked up. I tried configuring DSL but blew it. No problem there 
> though.
> > It also claimed to configure the boot loader.
> >
> > I rebooted and came up with a text Grub prompt. I typed in boot 
> and it
> > booted to SUSE. OK. I rebooted and couldn't get to Win2K. Rebuilt 
> the MBR
> > to get to Win2K.
> >
> > I followed, or tired to follow the SUSE manual. I previously 
> installed
> > SUSE on hdb with KUBUNTU on hda on a different machine and got a 
> real
> > nice selection menu for SUSE or UBUNTU. hdb was dying which gave 
> me
> > problems with SUSE and DSL didn't want to configure then either.
> >
> > Earl
> >
> 
> >
> > We have traded the wisdom of the ancestors for the superstition 
> of
> > science.
> > Nirvana is this world itself, when experienced without desire and 
> fear.
> >
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We have traded the wisdom of the ancestors for the superstition of
science.
Nirvana is this world itself, when experienced without desire and fear.