Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Vince Littler <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 01 June 2004 3:44 pm, Stephen W wrote:
> The problems continue to increase in number.
>
> On a previous post I noted I was unable to get SuSE8.2
> to partition a 160GB HD.  Fiddled wth that enough so
> decided to put all the old HD back it and run the old
> system.
>
> Well, now I cannot even boot that system.
> GRUB error!!!
>
> I did not make a rescue disk ... Am I up that
> proverbial polluted tributary?
>
> PS. I was able to get RedHat 9 to recognize and
> install on that 160 HD.  That is how I am able to send
> this...  Any ideas on how to resurrect the old SuSE
> system?  (Which includes 2 HDs of old Win stuff, not
> to mention 6 months of learning SuSE on one of the
> drives.)
>
> Thanks
>


Stephen,

What is your GRUB error? Has the SUSE hd been changed? If you can get to the 
GRUB menu, you might stand a chance to reboot from the GRUB command line.

Vince