Jack Brooks wrote:
I'm running SuSE 9.3 on my 2.4Ghz P4, 1024Mb RAM, 200GB HD, pc.
Last night I was updating some packages via synaptic and the suse apt repositories on ftp.gwdg.de including a lot of updated kde stuff. Synaptic wouldn't run the update because several of the packages weren't signed. As an alternative, I used red carpet to install all of the packages from the cache file where synaptic had downloaded them to. Everything installed fine and I rebooted with no problems. Upon reboot, I downloaded Mplayer and the mplayer plug-in from Packman's site and installed them with red carpet as well. However, when I tried to reboot the splash screen (9.3 default) shows me the command lines and says that it can't find hdb1 or any other partition on my hard drive. I get the grub menu just fine, but when I try to load 9.3 it craps out and tells me it can't find any partitions. I tried doing a repair with the 9.3 dvd, but it also says it can't find any partitions on the hard drive.
I would love to be more specific, but I'm not quite competent enough to do so. I would appreciate whatever help is given.
Thanks in advance
Jack
You could try an install up to where you could view the partitions. As alternatives I use http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rescuecd/timos_rescue_cd_set-0.9.12r2.... or knoppix so I can boot up and do fdisk, reiserfsck, reiserdebug, mount partitions, chroot to a mounted partition and run mkinitrd, alter files that may be stopping a full boot of any distro. They have got me out of some tricky situations in the past, expecially timo's rescuecd which boots up faster than knoppix and can run in RAM. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks