Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/16/06, Andy Goss <aegoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:29 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > With SUSE 10.0/10.1 what is the correct way to reinstall grub?
> >
> > I had a hardware issue trying to install SUSE 10.1 on a computer.
> >
> > Now grub is not booting to a menu.  I tried to re-perform the install,
> > but it had no impact on grub's booting.
> >
> > I currently have:
> > hda1 - Win2000 boot
> > hda5 - NTFS working drive
> > hda6 - swap partition (garbage)
> > hda7 - / partition (just rewritten with a fresh install)
> > hda8 - /home (Just formatted, no users)
> >
> > I can mount hda7 in rescue mode and it looks fine.
> >
> > I'm trying from rescue mode to do either:
> >
> > grub-install /dev/hda7
> >
> > or
> >
> > grub
> > root (hd0,7)
> > setup (hd0)
> >
> > Both are failing.  It seems that SUSE 10.1 does not support the above
> > methodology anymore?
> >
> > I guess I should try some older boot CDs to do the rescue from?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Greg
> > --
> > Greg Freemyer
> > The Norcross Group
> > Forensics for the 21st Century
> >
> I think:
>
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
>
> is more what you want, as it will put GRUB where the BIOS can find it.
> GRUB will then identify all bootables on the drive and include them in
> the list, with SUSE as the default. At least that is my understanding,
> and it has worked for me.
>
> Andy Goss

I think that would screw up my Win2K installation on the first
partition.  When I actually typed in the right command "root (hd0,6)"
for my system grub installed fine.

Unfortunately it still did not get to grub stage 2.  Yesterday I tried
installing SUSE 9.2 and 10.0 in addition to 10.1.  Same results from
each.

I think I will try lilo on this box.

Greg
--
Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

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