Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3340 mails)

[Dave Barton <db@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re:[opensuse] Grub Error 21
From: David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: suse <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri 18 Jan 2008 10:27:54 EST

> James Knott wrote:
> > Dave Barton wrote:
> > > I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and
> > > encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3
> > > on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no problem. Created a
> > > FAT32 partition on hd1 using 50% of the disk capacity, leaving
> > > remainder unallocated for Linux partitions. Booted to the 10.3
> > > installation DVD and the install to hd1, including on-line updates,
> > > went perfectly, until the first reboot, where I get:
> >
> > Though I don't recall the exact details, I had a similar problem last
> > year.  IIRC, after booting with the CD and then boot installed system, I
> > went into Yast and changed where Grub started the installed SUSE from. 
> > I think I had to specifiy the actual partition or something like that.
>
> I ran into this not long ago. If I recall, the only thing required to 
> fix it was to boot from the dvd, drop to a console as root and type
>
> grub-install /dev/sda
>
> reboot

Thanks for the suggestion David. I have already tried that option, but 
it didn't work for me.

Regards

Dave