Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Paul Abrahams <abrahams@xxxxxxx>]

Now that several of us seem to agree that the situtation is at least a little  
murky, I'll ask one question again: if I'm getting a Stage 1.5 or Stage 2 
error, doesn't that imply that grub has not even gotten as far as looking at 
the individual choices within menu.lst?  If there's a problem with the 
choices, I'd expect it to appear *after* I made a defective choice.

If that's the case, then the problem seems to lie not so much on the contents 
of menu.lst as in how the contents of menu.lst get transferred into the MBR, 
assuming (as is the case) that I'm booting from the boot sector and not from 
a partition.  I tried calling grub-install like this, as Carl suggested:

grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda

but that did not produce a better result, alas.

I've also tried entrusting the entire process to Yast, with default choices, 
but Yast seems not up to the job here in the case where /boot is in a 
separate partition.

Paul