A bit additional information: In the installation process, under "Installationseinstellungen" (perhaps "Configuration data") we find the point "Systemstart" (perhaps "Boot process"), which says Bootloader-Typ: GRUB Status Lokation: /dev/sda5 ("/") Lokation: Boot aus MBV ist deaktiviert ("deactivated") Boot aus "/"-Partition ist aktiviert I tried both of these location, with identical results (the error message below). It furthermore says (my translation): The booloader is installed in a partition, which does not lie fully below 128GB. The system possibly won't start, if the BIOS only supports iba24 (the result is error 18 when installing the grub-MBRs). That message is obscure (as, unfortunately, the whole business of partitioning and booting with Suse), it doesn't explain what it means, and it doesn't say would needs to be done. But I guess the HP-bios should be able to boot Linux, and there is no error 18. I would be really thankful for any hint. Oliver On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 11:42:42AM +0100, Oliver Kullmann wrote:
Hello,
I want to install Suse 11.4 on a Laptop (HP-G62) with Windows 7 on it (no previous Linux).
I created three partitions for / (ext4, 20GB), /home (ext4, 100GB) and swap (4GB).
Now at the end of the installation process, either when installing grub into MBR or the other possibility (forget what it was called, but there are two possibilities), I get the following error message:
------------- GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072 upper memory) [ ... ] grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0) (hd0,4) Error 22: No such partition grub> quit -------------
I didn't find something relevant in the Internet on that.
Shall I perhaps create also a dedicated partition for /boot ? (And if so, what size should it have?)
Thanks for your consideration.
Oliver
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