On Sunday 02 November 2008 12:00:18 Rajko M. wrote:
info grub section Troubleshooting subsect. Errors reported by the Stage 2 25 : Disk read error This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to probe or read data from a particular disk.
It seems that copy is not good. How you did it? More info on hard disks in your computer and where is installed system? Something as 'fdisk -l' and mark system partition should be fine.
Thanks for the help. I should have been more specific in the first place, but I was trying to keep my query short and readable. There are three drives and one DVD in my server, all four of them SATA. My motherboard has only 4 SATA ports, and the extra SATA card (2 port) I bought doesn't seem compatible with my BIOS. I can't get past a POST with it installed. If I had an extra SATA port, I'd just ADD the new drive to the system, instead of replacing the older drive with it. The drive I'm replacing holds only DVD movies. The other two drives contain my / and /home mounts. That's why I thought that replacing it would be safe and easy. Pete Connolly suggested in a private email that I try booting with the openSuSE DVD, and try sorting out the GRUB errors that way. I've needed to do that in the past, but I'd forgotten about that approach until he mentioned it. That's what I'm going to try next. I don't know what this particular drive has to do with GRUB, as it was added to the system long after the other two drives were in use. One would think that GRUB could care less if it is replaced, but apparently that's not true. Thanks again - I'm off to find my DVD, and try getting it started that way. If I can get the system booted, I'm pretty sure I can sort out the problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org