-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I added a new hard disk, and it's giving me problems booting the "main" system. Grub is installed in the MBR of /dev/hda - (hd0) It boots a test partition, /dev/hda9 (hd0,8). An entry in the menu.lst file allows me booting my main linux, in /dev/hdd6, with a separate /boot partition in /dev/hda6: /dev/hda9 test system (suse 10.2) /dev/hda6 - /boot |\ /dev/hdd6 - / |=> main system (suse 10.2) This grub is installed with: grub: setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,8) quit That's the current "working" situation. What I want to do and doesn't work, is to make the MBR in hda boot instead of the test/boot, the main /boot. I do this: grub> root (hd0,5) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,5) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,5)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst". .. succeeded Done. It claims to succeed. However, when I boot it enters a loop: after the bios screen goes off, it goes black, blinks twice, and starts the bios booting screen again, never ending. It never displays any error message, or it goes so fast I can't see it. I don't think there is any. I have to boot from a dvd, and reinstall grub booting the test partition again. I can not convince grub to use a different /boot partition. What is wrong? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF9JVltTMYHG2NR9URAq80AKCSQB+5gD2vGUFpc2ipkwL6iWU+twCePHPH Y7icr69sBA/p4Lv+EuiS3Os= =SUc4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org