Carl, I tried the steps but there is no /boot/grub on this system from Rescue's viewpoint. I am not going to use KILLDISK to totally clean up the drive and then try reinstalling RC1. It may indeed be that the previous installs have caused confusion and this will eliminate that possibility for the next install attempt. You information on ERROR 16 made me consider this and head in this direction. Will let you know. :} JB Carl Hartung wrote:
On Saturday 10 September 2005 14:35, john bartee wrote:
Carl, I will give that a go. I was not denigrating the product only letting the list know that the Release Candidate would not install for me -- which is a big deal if this is getting ready for prime time. I have never had any issues nor had to use such a manual kludge to install any of the many SUSE installations I have done over the years (maybe I am just lucky). I apologize for any sloppy reporting and will provide more precise diagnosis in the future.
Hi John,
It's only a "big deal" if it fails to install on a 'typical' newcomer's system... you know, M$haft eating up a single drive and, maybe, a new second drive installed for Linux. Most people with multiple OS's and many partitions on their systems are presumed, I think, to know how to deal with hiccups. The boot loader configuration module isn't sentient :-) much less perfect... so when it gets confused, you've got to be prepared to intervene. That's why I always check it before committing any changes. And the fact that neither of us has to do that very often is a testament to the ingenuity of everyone at SUSE.
Also, I left out a couple of important points in case you are new to Grub. It starts counting at '0' and defaults to omitting /dev/hdb (presumed optical.) Example "grub speak":
/dev/hda1 = hd0,0 /dev/hda2 = hd0,1 /dev/hda3 = hd0,2 ... /dev/hdc1 = hd1,0 /dev/hdc2 = hd1,1 /dev/hdc3 = hd1,2 and so on.
So, if you see the directive "kernel (hd3,4)/boot/vmlinuz" in Grub's menu.lst (which resides in /boot/grub/) it is pointing to a Linux system installed on /dev/hde4. If you mount /dev/hde4 and don't see a /boot directory containing the files initrd or vmlinuz, you know that menu.lst entry is bogus.
hth & regards,
- Carl
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