Responding to my own post. I think my problem may be bigger than I thought and not really SuSE related. I booted to the XP CD and did a fixmbr (thinking I could start from scratch with the repair feature in SuSE). I then rebooted and it did the same thing for XP. It shows the DELL logo then goes blank (normal), then I hear a click and the logo pops back up then I get a screen that says windows didn't start properly last time and I have a few choices (safe mode ...) so I choose Normal boot and it boots just fine. This is not good. Any ideas what is wrong? When GRUB is installed I have no problems booting to XP. Thanks Russ Russ wrote:
OK, I booted to the SuSE install CD, chose instalation then chose to repair an installed installation. Then I chose auyo repair. It did tell me that GRUB was defunct so I told it to replace it. It di but sitll won't boot to SuSE.
Any ideas how I can fix it short of a reinstall?
Thanks Russ
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 12/30/2003 04:39 PM, Russ wrote:
I booted to the install disk and chose to boot to installed system and it worked fine. Rebooted and it did the same thing (looped back to GRUB). So I booted to the install disk again and chose to reinstall GRUB (neat feature that).
Reinstall GRUB? from an rpm, to an MBR, something else?
Rebooted, and same thing (looped back to GRUB).
Why would it do this?
IIUC, the initial GRUB screen is stage one, loaded in MBR. Then it goes to stage 2, accessing the boot files of the system it is booting. It sounds like it is failing in stage 2.
I didn't do anything this time, honest.
I would go to Yast's bootloader config program, recheck everything, and if it looks ok have it rewrite the MBR.