I'm pretty sure this is not SuSE specific but I'm sticking with Suse for
On 01/12/2010 08:48 AM, Mike wrote: this
machine. (fedora and Ubuntu also failed)
The install is to 2 IDE drives with SuSE being on the second drive /dev/sdb1 is mounted on /boot I am using lvm for the other partitions
I finish the install and I get a grub error 2 when it reboots (Bad file or directory type)
If I tell the BIOS to boot from the other hard drive I get a grub error 17 (Cannot mount selected partition)
If I boot from the install CD I get a error 2 again.
It does not get far enough to give me the grub menu or prompt.
the output from cat /boot/grub/menu.lst and fdisk -l follow
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Your grub errors are normal and just reflect an incorrect /boot/grub/menu.lst and/or incorrect /boot/grub/device.map
My big surprise was that installers for SuSE, Fedora and Ubuntu couldn't handle this configuration during the install
Also, from your fdisk listing it looks like your are trying to run a dmraid setup -- which is fine, but you just need to get your config right.
I just chose to use LVM for all the partitions other than /boot which I kept as a separate partition After the automatic repair failed to fix it My initial resolution was to just pull the XP drive. Once that was working I was able to add it back into the mix. I suspect that I now have grub on the MBR of both drives, but it is working and the machine will be reformatted soon enough since it is a lab machine. -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org