At 01:57:43 on Friday Friday 8 October 2010, Felix Miata
On 2010/10/05 13:10 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/
ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/device.map-11_1 says 11.1's grub found a Hitachi 250G HD as 2nd HD, and an older IBM or Hitachi HD as 1st HD.
Which is wrong; one of the HDs is a Seagate. This is an old GRUB. The phantom HD was a Hitachi.
ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/menu.lst-11_1 confirms 11.1's root was on 6th partition on 2nd HD, while telling that 10.3 was on 6th partition on the 1st HD.
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned to Jan that there was confusion about which HD was which, and didn't always know "which twin had the Tony" (a reference to a commercial for a hair-dying product that probably hasn't been used for decades).
ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/device.map-11_3 says 11.3's grub found a Seagate 250G HD as 1st HD, and the same Hitachi 250G HD as 2nd that 11.1 found.
This is correct.
ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/menu.lst-11_3 confirms 11.3's root was on 6th partition on 1st HD, while telling that 11.1 was on the 6th partition on the 2nd HD.
We are closing in.
ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/fdisk tells us that both disks are same size and have identical Linux partition layout, but show that partition table entries on both disks are in a different order, plus the HD fdisk says is sdb has a FAT32 partition following IBM Boot Manager and the Linux partitions.
I have no idea how an FAT32 partition can have got right after BM.
ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/DFSWORK.LOG shows us the the two HDs are currently presented by the BIOS in reverse logical order of what they were at the time their SUSEs were installed, with 11.1 living on the 1st HD and 11.3 living on the 2nd HD.
It's no wonder booting from the existing menu.lsts is not possible, but proper Grub prompt commands succeed in starting SUSE boot. It _looks_ like all that would have been required to fix the problem would have been to swap cables between the two SATA disks, but also swapping the HD order in the BIOS might accomplish the same thing as a cable swap, and could be the reason leading to this thread's OP.
So I have two alternatives: 1) Swap cables 2) Swap HD order in the BIOS I will get back to you later in the day. If that is really the source of the problem, I am much relieved. Felix, I can't thank you enough. I have to apologize to you for bobbles I have made in the process of working through this thing with you, when my mind wandered a bit and I committed stupidities. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org