-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-01-18 at 09:48 +1100, 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:
GRUB Loading stage1.5 Grub loading, please wait... Error 21
At which point everything grinds to a standstill.
21 : Selected disk does not exist This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full file name refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or not recognized by the BIOS in the system. Sadly, grub errors are difficult to track and solve. No hand holding, no verbose logs... An idea: does your bios allows booting from the second hard disk? If it does, it might solve the situation. Just mark a partition as bootable in the second disk and install grub on that one. In this way, grub will not be attempting to install in one disk and boot another disk, which appears to be a situation it doesn't like. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHk3JTtTMYHG2NR9URAga3AJsHOCVBd4f2PdG2IflszIQBXQRk4wCdFWyk MN6KFqJe5Bpwcqa61I+LFjo= =ZZUQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org