Thank you for your replies. I have tried some options that you have described, but the problem is that I had 2 hard disk where the windows 2000 is installed in Mater and suse 9.2 installed in Slave. So I boot from hard disk, the GRUB word displays on the screen and then nothing happens To start Linux I should every time boot from floppies and select Installation then boot installed system But I tried several times to start windows I couldn't even with the bootable cd of windows Could someone please help me with ? your help will be very appreciated Regards and Thanks Azzedine -----Original Message----- From: Greg Wallace [mailto:jgregw@acsalaska.net]On Behalf Of Greg Wallace Sent: maandag 1 augustus 2005 4:52 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] Grub problem I just wrote:
On Sunday, July 31, 2005 @ 5:50 PM, A Yahiaoui wrote:
Dear all,
I have installed suse pro 9.2 on my pc in which motherboard is asus p2B and I getting in starting Linux. When I switch on my pc, grub word displays and nothing then happens>
I have even tried with Lilo, but I got the error after starting in form of L 99 99 ...
I would be glad if you would like to help me to solve this problem.
Thinking you in advance for your support
I have had that happen before and the problem was that Grub Stage 1 was not installed in the MBR. There are two stages to GRUB, the first in the MBR of your hard drive and the second is in your actual SuSE root partition. Now, cutting to the chase, if that is the problem here as what you would need to do.
1) Boot your system from the installation disk. You should see the same screens you saw when you first installed, but at some point you will be provided options such as (these may not be exact words) New Installation, Boot Current System, ... Select Boot Current System. That should get you booted up. Log in as root. Then, do the following
grub -- This should come back with a prompt grub>
find /boot/grub/stage1 -- You should get back something like (hd0,1)
root (hd0,1) -- Or whatever the prompt said
setup (hd0) -- You should get messages back saying stage 1 has been written.
Re-boot, without the Installation CD
Good luck, Greg Wallace
Damn. I hope this one doesn't wrap the steps I listed like the last message did (hard to read). Greg Wallace -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Monday 01 August 2005 12:53, Yahiaoui, A. wrote:
Thank you for your replies. I have tried some options that you have described, but the problem is that I had 2 hard disk where the windows 2000 is installed in Mater and suse 9.2 installed in Slave. So I boot from hard disk, the GRUB word displays on the screen and then nothing happens To start Linux I should every time boot from floppies and select Installation then boot installed system But I tried several times to start windows I couldn't even with the bootable cd of windows Could someone please help me with ? your help will be very appreciated
So, you have Windows in /dev/hda and SUSE in /dev/hdb, right? It's not the best setup. If you keep them that way, you'll have to have grub in the MBR of the Windows disk. And if the second disk goes away you won't be able to boot from the first disk either. I would recommend having SUSE as first disk, and Windows as second. Anyway, there are solutions for both cases. Just tell me what you want to do, and post here your /boot/grub/menu.lst so I can edit it. And don't panic, you'll be able to boot Windows, nothing is lost.
On Monday 01 August 2005 15:12, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
And don't panic, you'll be able to boot Windows, nothing is lost.
For starters, boot with your Windows CD, go to the recovery console and type "fixmbr". This will erase grub from the MBR of your Windows disk. You'll still be able to boot Linux as you do now (with the floppy). Take care not to format your Windows disk in the process...
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