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For reasons that I needn't go into I found it necessary to upgrade my Linux system to OpenSUSE 11.1 form 10.3 (I was intending to wait for 11.2, but that's a different story)
I installed 111.1 on a new 500GB SATA HD without any complaints or problems, until I rebooted the system without the installation DVD in it's drive. Everything is well until I get to:
GRUB loading stage 1.5
When the boot hangs on:
GRUB loading, please wait . . .
In this case the ellipses represent a time of infinity.
OK. What I gon' to do? Well, boot the installation DVD and run Repair System. The first two methods on that page were unsuccessful. I tried Expert Tools and it told me that it succeeded. And, indeed it did as long as I selected Repair Tools/Boot installed system from the pull down menu at the bottom of the Expert Tools page. When I boot from the HD (no installation DVD in drive) it still hangs
So I can boot 11.1, albeit it rather clumsily. I managed to copy the Grub menu list to my windows machine (from which this pleas for help is being dispatched. It's attached.
I am strictly a user and GRUB is an arcane mystery to me. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. While running 11.1 (which I think you said you could do in another
On 03/30/2009 12:38 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: post), open a terminal, send us the output of fdisk -l. We need to verify your 11.1 is really on your 4th HD, first partition [root (hd3,0)]. It might be good also to send us your /etc/fstab as well. Or, if you know your partitioning, like is there a separate /boot? which partition is /? You easily install grub to the mbr of your new disk by entering a grub shell (enter grub from a console, then root (hdx,y) [x=hd with 11.1, y=partition number with /boot, if not separate /boot, this would be your / partition. Note: counting starts at 0]. After the root command, you would next write it to the mbr via setup (hdx) [x would be the hd with 11.1]. Then quit to exit grub. i.e. if your menu.lst was correct, that would be grub root (hd3,0) setup (hd3) quit HTH -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org