so now suse 9.1 performs the updates, and right now at the very end, it comes up with grub (0.94) error:
--- root (hd0,1)
error 21: selected disk does not exist install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,1) /boot/grub/menu.lst
error 12: invalid device requested quit
ok after the error message, turns out that the bootloader install part of yast2 still had /dev/hda and so forth in his configuration. i exchanged /dev/hda to /dev/hde there. then the installer was able to install grub to the harddisk. but now when the new updated system tries to boot, grub immediately gives me errors that it cannot find some bitmap (the graphical background of suse during bootup or something), then only displays the text-mode menue with linux, memtest rescue and so forth and when trying to boot linux it gives me more errors: booting 'linux' kernel (null)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde2 vga=0x314 splash=silent console=tty0 desktop resume=/dev/hde1 showopts error 23: error while parsing number press any key to continue .... ---- then the grub textmode menue starts over again. the entries linux failsafe and memtest all give me this very error, the entry floppy tries to access the floppy drive. ---- any hints? thanks, andy