---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Ken Schneider Reply-To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:06:23 -0500

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:25 -0800, Matt Stamm wrote:

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---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Ken Schneider Reply-To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:13:14 -0500 When I boot the install cd and then boot to the hard drive i get the "GRUB Loading Stage1.5" message and everything stops

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Also How long have you been using linux, not necessarily just SuSE, but in general?

I've only use SuSE, and have used SuSE since 2002 when I installed 8.1. I've been using 8.1 ever since.

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One thing that you can try, not sure if I recommended this already,

boot

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to the rescue system and make a note of which kernel modules are loaded that give access to the SATA drive, if at all, (let us know if the drive is available in rescue mode).

Yes, the drive is available in rescue mode. I enter rescue mode, login as root, and using the command line I see what appears to be a normal linux file structure (/bin, /etc, /home, etc.)

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This/these module(s) will need to be added to the initrd modules list so they are loaded during the initial boot sequence. This can be done from the rescue system using chroot to gain access to the installed system as though you booted to the installed system.

I don't understand. I've never used chroot

Normally / is your root directory, with chroot you can temporarily change it to something else. In this case you would mount your root directory to a temporary mount point in the rescue system and use the chroot command to change to that mount point and have it treated as though it is /.

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If you're installed system has /boot on a separate partition it will need to be mounted after the root filesystem is mounted.

/boot is on the same system. Using the rescue system, when I go to /boot, its empty.

Send a copy of the /etc/fstab from the system. If you have a floppy drive you can copy it there so you can add it to an email. It looks like /root is on it's own partition.

-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

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Ken, A new twist. I finally got Suse 10 to install by changing the boot loader from GRUB to LILO! Does it seem to you to suggest a problem with GRUB and SATA drives?? Here is a summary of what I did... - normal install failed with "GRUB Loading stage1.5." on initial boot after the CD1 install. - Successful FreeDOS install and hard drive boot. - successful Suse 10 install when I disconnected the 80gig SATA drive and connected a 6 gig drive to IDE2 - Successful install when using LILO in place of GRUB I could install suse using grub when I used an IDE drive but GRUB crashed when installing to a SATA drive. I'm still a little concerning that I can not use GRUB. Should I be? Anyway, concerning my fstat. I wasn't sure if I could send an attachment through the mailing list so below is a copy... /dev/sda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0 Thank you very much for your help! Matt