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On 2007/11/01 17:06 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed:
from Felix Miata
on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:17:42 -0400 On 2007/11/01 14:55 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed:
GRUB seems still OK to be, it points to a stage-2 loader which is at sector 0x1973e28 (which is inside /dev/sda6 somewhere).
(GRUB, I should add occupies its own small (7MB) EXT2 partition, sda7.
GRUB stageX @PSN : 0x01973e28 Located on : /dev/hda6
So, all is apparently as it should be, and I can't tell why it does not boot
It's above my understanding why Grub needs to be in two partitions, so maybe a DFSee 'part -b-' report would be useful.
There you have me, I didn't know about being in two places. I also don't know about a "part -b report". Do you mean the DFSDISK report? I can send it as an attachment easily.
The references to both /dev/sda7 and /dev/hda6 and sda7 would seem to imply there are at least two disks on which at least portions of Grub might be found, or maybe one disk with multiple device names.
I'm sorry, that is the result of my clumsiness. There is only one HD, and it is a SATA drive. The DFSee report came back naming "hda" in both places above, and I replaced one of the instances with "sda" as I was mulling over the significance of what appears to be an error of some sort. I forgot to change it back when I sent my note to this forum. The only "hda" on the machine is the CD/DVD drive. That is a certain, as you can see from the fact that, when I need to unmount the CD/DVD drive in order to eject a disk, my command is "umount /dev/hda".
The onscreen report from simply starting DFSee ends with a chart listing partitions and their characteristics. The one you get from running DFSee in Linux instead of DOS, doz or OS/2 is a bit different. From Linux, on the command line after starting DFSee you run 'part -b-' to get a chart identical to the one provided by the other varieties by default. It's essentially an amplified version of output from 'fdisk -l <diskdevice>' for all accessible disks.
I ran DFSee v9.xx from OS/2, because that is the only way I can do it. The whole problem, of course, is that I can't access Linux. I do not have a DFSee v9.xx bootable disk, but I do have one for v8.02, but I am sure this earlier version does not give a much detail as the new v9.xx does. Do you want me to run DFSDISK with DFSee v8? Or some other report? Nothing would be easier, just say the word. I have an Ubuntu disk, which I think can run live. I have never used it for anything. I am assuming that if I boot from it, I could run the Linux DFSee v8 -- but I also assume that I would need a second CD/DVD drive to do this. But could I boot the openSuSE DVD to "Rescue", then remove the DVD and insert the DFSee DVD to run the utility? If so, which partitions would I need to mount, if any? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel REAL similes/metaphors by high school students; #18: Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org