Hi All, I decided to go with just one distro of Linux since I was pulling my hair out trying to get them to boot anyway. Anyway, I decided to switch the drives around (80 gig is now master with XP Home and the 160 gig is slave with win98se/SuSE). Now grub will boot XP (it wouldn't when XP was on the slaved disk) but now it won't boot SuSE. I decided to reinstall SuSE so it would be sure to point towards a slaved disk. During the install it is suppose to reboot and continue. Grub shows up, SuSE is chosen, screen goes blank, computer boots again. Any ideas why? Dell 4600 3ghz 80gig (set as master not cs) and a 160 (set as slave not cs). I tried them both on cs and it did the same thing anyway. Thanks Russ
On 12/27/2003 01:23 PM, Russ wrote:
Anyway, I decided to switch the drives around (80 gig is now master with XP Home and the 160 gig is slave with win98se/SuSE). Now grub will boot XP (it wouldn't when XP was on the slaved disk) but now it won't boot SuSE.
go to the rescueCD and edit your menu.lst to point to the right drive since you moved the order. Your problem was probably XP and not grub. Was XP's boot.ini pointing to the correct drive? Did you install XP on the "D" drive?
I decided to reinstall SuSE so it would be sure to point towards a slaved disk. During the install it is suppose to reboot and continue. Grub shows up, SuSE is chosen, screen goes blank, computer boots again.
Any ideas why?
Has it been changed since the original setup? Was a new menu.lst installed? I would go into the rescue cd and mount your root partition to /mnt, if you have a separate boot partition mount it at /mnt/boot, then chroot /mnt and edit you menu.lst to get everything sorted to your new config. Since grub is now on the mbr of the second HD, you would need to do a grub-install /dev/hda to copy it to the mbr of the "C" drive. HTH -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
Hi Joe, Thanks for the response. First off, what is the "Rescue CD"? I have some comments below too. ----- Original Message -----
On 12/27/2003 01:23 PM, Russ wrote:
Anyway, I decided to switch the drives around (80 gig is now master with XP Home and the 160 gig is slave with win98se/SuSE). Now grub will boot XP (it wouldn't when XP was on the slaved disk) but now it won't boot SuSE.
go to the rescueCD and edit your menu.lst to point to the right drive since you moved the order. Your problem was probably XP and not grub. Was XP's boot.ini pointing to the correct drive? Did you install XP on the "D" drive?
I decided to reinstall SuSE so it would be sure to point towards a slaved disk. During the install it is suppose to reboot and continue. Grub shows up, SuSE is chosen, screen goes blank, computer boots again.
Any ideas why?
Has it been changed since the original setup? Was a new menu.lst installed? I would go into the rescue cd and mount your root partition to /mnt, if you have a separate boot partition mount it at /mnt/boot, then chroot /mnt and edit you menu.lst to get everything sorted to your new config. Since grub is now on the mbr of the second HD, you would need to do a grub-install /dev/hda to copy it to the mbr of the "C" drive. HTH
I was in the process of doing just that so everything would point to where it was installed (I formatted the drive and started over). Anyway, after the first disk, SuSE reboots and finishes the others. However, when it rebooted it kept looping back to the Grub screen. I gave up and went to bed. This morning I booted up and it went straight to SuSE and finished the install (go figure)??????? Thanks Russ
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