On Mon August 20 2007 14:30, Tero Pesonen wrote:
I don't think this is a hard disk issue: I had this same master/boot hard disk while on SUSE 9.3 and never saw this issue there after a system freeze. GRUB always came up equally fast and always loaded without hiccups. System freezes were much less common on SUSE 9.3, of course, but still happened a few times. I've also heard of others who have seen this same "GRUB won't load" behaviour on openSUSE 10.2 on totally different hardware.
Hi Tero, et al Just tossing in an observation... When we lose power up here (I live out in the sticks) before grub will load and allow the system to boot normally, I must *first* boot into rescue mode using a network install CD or installation DVD, etc., to (reiser)fsck each partition that was mounted when the system went down. When not properly shut down, the mounted partitions are left in a 'dirty' state. Until reset to 'clean' mode (as happens during a normal shutdown,) the affected partitions seem to mount only in Read Only mode, which is slow and wastes time since they should be checked and reset before booting again, anyway. regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org