Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>]

I just wrote:

>On Sunday, July 31, 2005 @ 5:50 PM, A Yahiaoui wrote:

>>Dear all,
>>
>> 
>>
>>I have installed suse pro 9.2 on my pc in which motherboard is asus p2B
>>and I getting in starting Linux. When I switch on my pc, grub word
>>displays and nothing  then happens>
>>
>>I have even tried with Lilo, but I got the error after starting in form
>>of  L 99 99 ...
>>
>>I would be glad if you would like to help me to solve this problem.
>>
>>Thinking you in advance for your support

>I have had that happen before and the problem was that Grub Stage 1 was not
>installed in the MBR.  There are two stages to GRUB, the first in the MBR
of
>your hard drive and the second is in your actual SuSE root partition.  Now,
>cutting to the chase, if that is the problem here as what you would need to
>do.

>1)  Boot your system from the installation disk.  You should see the same
>screens you saw when you first installed, but at some point you will be
>provided options such as (these may not be exact words) New Installation,
>Boot Current System, ...  Select Boot Current System.  That should get you
>booted up.  Log in as root.  Then, do the following

>grub -- This should come back with a prompt grub>

>find /boot/grub/stage1 -- You should get back something like (hd0,1)

>root (hd0,1) -- Or whatever the prompt said

>setup (hd0) -- You should get messages back saying stage 1 has been
written.

>Re-boot, without the Installation CD

>Good luck,
>Greg Wallace

Damn.  I hope this one doesn't wrap the steps I listed like the last message
did (hard to read).

Greg Wallace