On Wednesday 27 September 2006 22:26, PerfectReign wrote:
I installed SUSE 10.1 on a new laptop some time ago. It is a Gateway 280m TabletPC which came installed with Windows NT Tablet Edition. All has been running for the most part since install. [...]
I [...] had to reboot to Windows (first time) [...] I exited windows, and then on reboot, I cannot load anything. I get the message, "GRUB loading stage 1.5" then the machine goes into an endless cycle of rebooting.
Very similar here. I have a desktop with 2 SATA disks and one came installed with WinXP (/dev/sda). After installing 10.1 in the second (/dev/sdb) and being happy for while, I logged for the first time into WinXP and from then on Grub just flashed on the screen (I mean the version of Grub) and then the machine went to Windows directly. Notice that I did NOT install WinXP after Linux (but perhaps the Automatic Update I ran did the damage?). So, the how-to suggested by others doesn't actually apply. I got the same "Error21:Selected disk does not exist" when I tried to repair the boot loader. Instead of exiting the repair mode and mounting the partitions to do a grub-install, I did the following: 1) Restart the DVD: Installation -> Other -> Boot Installed System (instead of "Repair Installed System"). 2) Logged in as root. I didn't have network, because somehow the old kernel (maybe from the DVD?) was loaded and no modules were found. 3) Run "grub-install /dev/sda", which is the Win disk, but it is the place that was being attempted by the automatic repair. (I tried to use Repair to install Grub in other places, but it didn't work. Same Error 21.) 4) Grub exited with success ("No error reported.") and now I can reboot into Win and back without a problem. I hope it stays so when I use auto-update in Win again, but now I can fix it easily if it breaks. Carlos FL