Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Markus Natter <markus.natter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/1/05, Tim Nicholson <tim.nicholson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A colleague who is trying to install suse 9 on his system has hit a
> curious problem.
> 
> On the first reboot at the end of the main part of the install, instead
> of carrying on and finishing those configuration parts of the install
> that need the main system running, upon reboot the system hangs with a
> "grub>" prompt.
> 
> I have looked at his / partition and can see nothing obviously wrong, it
> has a proper "/boot/grub/menu.1st" file etc, but it occurs to me that on
> this first boot things happen differently to normal in that (ISTR) it
> drops straight into configuring the system (network, printers, users,
> etc) so it would appear that grub is not getting the correct script to
> boot into this mode, nor is it using the menu.1st.
> 
> Can anyone provide any pointers as to what might be going wrong here?
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Hi Tim,

there could be quiet a lot reasons and there are even as much
resolutions out there.
You should also search the mailing list archives. There is no error message?
But I'll try to give some ideas..

- grub has not correctly been installed

 you might to try to boot in rescue mode ( maybe you have to load some
kernel modules  first, for filesystems or harddisk controller ) and
mount the root partition e.g. to /mnt.
Then check the grub configuration files in boot/grub/ (in device.map,
is hd0 pointing to device? e.g. /dev/hda ).
Try to reinstall grub with 

#>chroot /mnt
#>grub-install hd0

- system is old but has a big harddisk
 check BIOS settings for this hdd if it is in LBA mode.. ( mh.. grub
should mention that as
 disk geometry error )
 try using a separate boot partition under the 1024 block.. 
 if nothing helps, try to use lilo instead of grub ( this seemed to
help in some cases, see list )


hope this helps,

Markus