On 10/17/2007 11:07 PM, Coach-X wrote:
I have a new install of 10.3 and cannot seem to boot the system without the dvd in the drive.
If I have the dvd in the drive, it defaults to boot to hard disk, it will pass to the grub menu and the system boots fine. If I take the disk out they system tells me to insert a bootable disk.
So your BIOS is set to boot first from CD, then HD?
I have set grub to install to the MBR, I have reinstalled via yast and with the following commands:
orion:~ # grub-install /dev/sda
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,1) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 18 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Done. grub> quit
Looks good, assuming all the choices were correct.
orion:~ # grub
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,1) root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 18 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Done. grub> quit
Sure looks to me that grub is installed correctly. Your BIOS is set to also boot from HD isn't it?
I also booted a windows floppy and tried fdisk /mbr and the reinstalled grub again without sucess. Any help with this issue would be appreciated.
So booting from a floppy also works. And booting from the install DVD works to boot from the HD, so I believe your HD MBR is also correct. Looks to me like a BIOS boot selection problem. Since floppy, cd, and HD via DVD all work, looks like your BIOS is either not setup to boot from HD, or its settings cannot read it correctly, i.e. maybe try changing LBS for Large or something like that. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org