On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:17, Sunny wrote:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 02:12:43 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek

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Having worked some on the grub configuration with Yast I must have changed something. On my hda1 I have drdos which I can not enter anymore. After choosing drdos in the grub menue I get above error. Cannot find what it means and have no solution for a solution. Google found this but that did not help much.

Error while parsing number This error is returned if GRUB was expecting to read a number and encountered bad data

Any ideas?

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Would you post your menu.lst file?

Here is my menu.lst: # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Feb 12 18:44:27 2005 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd1,0)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Suse 9.0 kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 vga=0x314 splash=silent acpi=off apm=off mem=134M desktop hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 showopts initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Suse 9.1 upd. kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb4 vga=0x314 splash=silent acpi=off apm=off mem=134M desktop hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Drdos### title Drdos root ( hd0,0) root=/dev/hda1 chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:32, Leendert Meyer wrote:

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Having worked some on the grub configuration with Yast I must have changed something. On my hda1 I have drdos which I can not enter anymore. After choosing drdos in the grub menue I get above error.

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Error while parsing number This error is returned if GRUB was expecting to read a number and encountered bad data

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###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Drdos### title Drdos root ( hd0,0) root=/dev/hda1

Above line does not look right. You probably have to change it into:

root (hd0,0)

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chainloader +1

Dear Leendert That line was one of the try outs after the drdos stopped working. Changed it back but same result. Had another good look at ( hd0,0) and discovered an empty space in front of the h of hd. Removed the empty space and everything is fine again. Remembers me of one of those beginner mistake that I made using the then usual CGA screen and not seeing the difference between a comma and a dot.

Darryl Gregorash wrote:

Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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Had another good look at ( hd0,0) and discovered an empty space in front of the h of hd. Removed the empty space and everything is fine again. Remembers me of one of those beginner mistake that I made using the then usual CGA screen and not seeing the difference between a comma and a dot.

Nonsense; Grub errors are at a much more sophisticated and meaningful level :-)

Anyway, if you look at the grammar of much of today's youth, there is no difference between a comnma and a dot --- or a semicolon either. mm so :) , ;) , ,) and .) are all the same? :)

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