On Wednesday 02 June 2004 00:57, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 06:43 pm, Mark Crean wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 22:37, Stephen W wrote:
Error Message: GRUB Hard Disk Error (That is the total message)
I tried using Install CD#1 and could get nowhere. An earlier post suggested that I:
Install Boot Installed System (that did not work) Reinstall GRUB (not an option I found)
I've done this by booting from the first SuSE CD and reinstalling grub from that, though I note that it appears not to have worked for you. In fact I had to do it when cloning some disks one from another. You might need to google around for the precise sequence of commands to use but it certainly worked here.
What happens if you boot from the SuSE CD and as root run "grub"? That should get you into the grub command box from which you can issue the actual commands.
:)
Fish
There is a 'rescue system' included on the first CD (or at least on the DVD) and you may have to use that to get into your installed system and then rerun grub.
To do so takes a few steps.
- Boot the 1st cd and select 'rescue'
- login as root. (no pswd needed)
- Mount /dev/hdaxx /mnt (mount your root partition onto /mnt)
- cd /mnt
- chroot /mnt (Make /mnt your root)
- Mount /dev/hdaxx /boot (mount your boot partition)
- grub-install
Usually to re-install GRUB, if the partition configuration is the same, I replace step 7) with: 7) grub < /etc/grub.conf YaST leaves a copy of its GRUB commands in /etc/grub.conf, ready to be used if GRUB is overwritten by e.g. another OS. Cheers, Leen