Ed Harrison wrote:
When I attempt to boot from harddisk, I get the error
Grub loading Stage 1.5
Grub loading, please wait...
It never goes any further.
I have tried system repair>>reload grub bootloader to no avail.
Any ideas appreciated.
Ed Harrison
You may not like this but it is possible that your HD is on the way out or is already gone. I had the same thing only a couple of weeks or so ago on one of my test drives. Had to use the manufacturer's (Seagate/Maxtor) setup disc to check the HD out and it came up with some bad sectors. Not a problem, I thought, the setup disc should repair them as it keeps asking if it should repair the sectors. But nah-nah, not a sausage- the errors were still there. So, a low level format was in order but even this did not repair the sectors. openSUSE was happy to install on it but when it came to the booting part the dreaded error that you are getting came up again and again. I retired the 80GB HD to become a paper-weight. The least you could do at the moment is to check the HD out as I did to see if the manufacturer's disc reveals anything. Oh, the other weird thing which was happening with my HD was that I could boot into the installed OS (v11.0 RC1) using the 10.3 DVD (with Boot Installed System facility - now removed from 11.0 :-( ) and it all worked fine but I could not boot normally - got the grub error. The booting using the 10.3 DVD really threw me until I used the mfgr's disc to check out the HD. Ciao. -- It's not possible to operate honestly using a basis of dishonesty. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org