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On 2009/12/10 22:24 (GMT-0500) Bob S composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
Exit the Grub GFX menu, and exit the Grub text menu to the grub prompt. When you get there, do:
find /boot/grub/stage1
That will list locations where Grub has been "installed". If you know what to do next, good. If not, just CAD to reboot. Then either try to figure out which of those is the actual location of your 11.2 partition, and substitute both the root= device name on the kernel line and the root (x,y) line that corresponds to it on your next attempt(s) to boot, in the manner I indicated previously (on the fly) as opposed to actually editing menu.lst, or report back here what it lists for further instructions.
OK, when I did that, this is what I got: ------------------------------------------------------------ grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1,0) (hd2,7)
grub> ---------------------------------------------------- Which is correct. (hd2,7) is the 11.2 partition. Don't know where to go from here.
Since root=/dev/sdc8 fails with "cannot find", try root=/dev/sdb8 instead to see what happens. You do have only two attached HDs, right? What do you have connected to USB during boot, an unpopulated memory chip reader maybe? If you have only two disks, there should be no (hd2), only (hd0) and (hd1), the latter of which would have your ,7 11.2 / partition. This kind of thing is precisely why the default configuration switchover to using /dev/disk* for root= and fstab entries instead of device names. Where are your HDs attached? PATA ports hda & hdc? PATA ports hda & hdb? 2 SATA ports? PATA hda & SATA both? If the latter, which OS's HD is on which port? Using both PATA & SATA HDs in the same system can be monumental multiboot pain. I wonder if when you boot the DVD to install or repair that the DVD steals (hd0)/sda, leaving the 2 HDs with (hd1)/sdb & (hd2)/sdc instead of (hd0)/sda & (hd1)/sdb as they would be on a normal boot? -- " We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org