The problems continue to increase in number. On a previous post I noted I was unable to get SuSE8.2 to partition a 160GB HD. Fiddled wth that enough so decided to put all the old HD back it and run the old system. Well, now I cannot even boot that system. GRUB error!!! I did not make a rescue disk ... Am I up that proverbial polluted tributary? PS. I was able to get RedHat 9 to recognize and install on that 160 HD. That is how I am able to send this... Any ideas on how to resurrect the old SuSE system? (Which includes 2 HDs of old Win stuff, not to mention 6 months of learning SuSE on one of the drives.) Thanks ===== Stephen W Sarasota, FL "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..." Proverbs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
Am Dienstag, 1. Juni 2004 16:44 schrieb Stephen W:
Any ideas on how to resurrect the old SuSE system? ( Boot from your install media, preferrably matching the version of the old system. Go Into Intallation mode. Choose "Boot Installed System". ---> Your System should come up. Then reinstall GRUB from Yast or use "grub-install" to do that. Any problems, mail -- buddha 2.6.4-54.5-default 9:05am an 19:31, 1 Benutzer,
Stephen W wrote:
The problems continue to increase in number.
On a previous post I noted I was unable to get SuSE8.2 to partition a 160GB HD. Fiddled wth that enough so decided to put all the old HD back it and run the old system.
Well, now I cannot even boot that system. GRUB error!!!
I did not make a rescue disk ... Am I up that proverbial polluted tributary?
PS. I was able to get RedHat 9 to recognize and install on that 160 HD. That is how I am able to send this... Any ideas on how to resurrect the old SuSE system? (Which includes 2 HDs of old Win stuff, not to mention 6 months of learning SuSE on one of the drives.)
Thanks
Insert your Suse first CD, or DVD, and start the install process but when you get to the (?)first menu select Boot Existing System. Unless something very bad had happened to the setup it will now start your existng installation. When you are in it go to YaST/System/Bootloader and (at this point I have to leave it up to you to find the correct option 'cause I forgot what it is! :-) ) execute the option which will rewrite the grub info to the mbr. If you have the manual(s) for Suse this procedure is mentioned there. Cheers. -- I am not young enough to know everything.
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 3:44 pm, Stephen W wrote:
The problems continue to increase in number.
On a previous post I noted I was unable to get SuSE8.2 to partition a 160GB HD. Fiddled wth that enough so decided to put all the old HD back it and run the old system.
Well, now I cannot even boot that system. GRUB error!!!
I did not make a rescue disk ... Am I up that proverbial polluted tributary?
PS. I was able to get RedHat 9 to recognize and install on that 160 HD. That is how I am able to send this... Any ideas on how to resurrect the old SuSE system? (Which includes 2 HDs of old Win stuff, not to mention 6 months of learning SuSE on one of the drives.)
Thanks
Stephen, What is your GRUB error? Has the SUSE hd been changed? If you can get to the GRUB menu, you might stand a chance to reboot from the GRUB command line. Vince
--- Vince Littler
The problems continue to increase in number.
On a previous post I noted I was unable to get SuSE8.2 to partition a 160GB HD. Fiddled wth that enough so decided to put all the old HD back it and run the
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 3:44 pm, Stephen W wrote: old
system.
Well, now I cannot even boot that system. GRUB error!!!
I did not make a rescue disk ... Am I up that proverbial polluted tributary?
PS. I was able to get RedHat 9 to recognize and install on that 160 HD. That is how I am able to send this... Any ideas on how to resurrect the old SuSE system? (Which includes 2 HDs of old Win stuff, not to mention 6 months of learning SuSE on one of the drives.)
Thanks
Stephen,
What is your GRUB error? Has the SUSE hd been changed? If you can get to the GRUB menu, you might stand a chance to reboot from the GRUB command line.
Vince
Vince and all: Error Message: GRUB Hard Disk Error (That is the total message) I tried using Install CD#1 and could get nowhere. An earlier post suggested that I: Install Boot Installed System (that did not work) Reinstall GRUB (not an option I found) ===== Stephen W Sarasota, FL "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..." Proverbs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 22:37, Stephen W wrote:
Error Message: GRUB Hard Disk Error (That is the total message)
I tried using Install CD#1 and could get nowhere. An earlier post suggested that I:
Install Boot Installed System (that did not work) Reinstall GRUB (not an option I found)
I've done this by booting from the first SuSE CD and reinstalling grub from that, though I note that it appears not to have worked for you. In fact I had to do it when cloning some disks one from another. You might need to google around for the precise sequence of commands to use but it certainly worked here. What happens if you boot from the SuSE CD and as root run "grub"? That should get you into the grub command box from which you can issue the actual commands. :) Fish
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 06:43 pm, Mark Crean wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 22:37, Stephen W wrote:
Error Message: GRUB Hard Disk Error (That is the total message)
I tried using Install CD#1 and could get nowhere. An earlier post suggested that I:
Install Boot Installed System (that did not work) Reinstall GRUB (not an option I found)
I've done this by booting from the first SuSE CD and reinstalling grub from that, though I note that it appears not to have worked for you. In fact I had to do it when cloning some disks one from another. You might need to google around for the precise sequence of commands to use but it certainly worked here.
What happens if you boot from the SuSE CD and as root run "grub"? That should get you into the grub command box from which you can issue the actual commands.
:)
Fish
There is a 'rescue system' included on the first CD (or at least on the DVD) and you may have to use that to get into your installed system and then rerun grub. To do so takes a few steps. 1) Boot the 1st cd and select 'rescue' 2) login as root. (no pswd needed) 3) Mount /dev/hdaxx /mnt (mount your root partition onto /mnt) 4) cd /mnt 5) chroot /mnt (Make /mnt your root) 6) Mount /dev/hdaxx /boot (mount your boot partition) 7) grub-install I've never had to do it, but those are the basic steps. You can do a lot with the rescue system. Give it a try and report back. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/01/04 18:54 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." - W.C. Fields
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 00:57, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 06:43 pm, Mark Crean wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 22:37, Stephen W wrote:
Error Message: GRUB Hard Disk Error (That is the total message)
I tried using Install CD#1 and could get nowhere. An earlier post suggested that I:
Install Boot Installed System (that did not work) Reinstall GRUB (not an option I found)
I've done this by booting from the first SuSE CD and reinstalling grub from that, though I note that it appears not to have worked for you. In fact I had to do it when cloning some disks one from another. You might need to google around for the precise sequence of commands to use but it certainly worked here.
What happens if you boot from the SuSE CD and as root run "grub"? That should get you into the grub command box from which you can issue the actual commands.
:)
Fish
There is a 'rescue system' included on the first CD (or at least on the DVD) and you may have to use that to get into your installed system and then rerun grub.
To do so takes a few steps.
1) Boot the 1st cd and select 'rescue' 2) login as root. (no pswd needed) 3) Mount /dev/hdaxx /mnt (mount your root partition onto /mnt) 4) cd /mnt 5) chroot /mnt (Make /mnt your root) 6) Mount /dev/hdaxx /boot (mount your boot partition) 7) grub-install
Usually to re-install GRUB, if the partition configuration is the same, I replace step 7) with: 7) grub < /etc/grub.conf YaST leaves a copy of its GRUB commands in /etc/grub.conf, ready to be used if GRUB is overwritten by e.g. another OS. Cheers, Leen
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