Suse 10 will not install, GRUB / SATA problem?
Hello, Thank you all for the help on this so farThis is an update to a previous post/thread.I'm still unable to install Suse 10 on my brandnew PC. The PC has a AMD Sempron 64 cpu, 512 mem80gig SATA harddrive. Based on the my prevoius post and your responses(thank you very much!) I beleive the problem isdue to GRUB and my SATA drive, but I am not anexpert in the area. Sorry for the lengthy post, but I wanted to put as much info as possible Here's what I've found... - my SUSE 10 install fails on the initial boot after the first CD with "GRUB Loading stag1.5". - if I use the cd in rescue mode and login to the command prompt I see what looks like a linux install on my harddrive. So I'm assuming the first install was successful incopying files to mt hard drive. One note, I noticed that the/boot directory is empty. - I can install FreeDOS successfully on this hard drive but need to perform the "FDISK /MBR" in order to make it boot to the hard drive properly. So, I can install another OS on the system/hard drive. I copied files, etc and everything went fine. - and finally, I disconnected the SATA drive, installed an old 6gig drive in IDE2, and the install progressed past the first cd for the first time, performing the initial boot to the hard drive successfully. So, I'm assuming the following, and please tell me where I'm wrong... - the system and SATA hard drive works fine because the Suse install recognized the hard drive and copied files to it, and I could install FreeDOS successfully - somewhere somehow the MBR is not finding GRUB stage1.5 after the first CD. From what I understand, the MBR contains GRUB stage 1, then finds stage 1.5 and 2 in something like /boot/grub. Could the first CD install not be setting up GRUB to find stages 1.5 and beyond on the SATA drive (/dev/sda1) where it does not have that problem when there is a IDE drive (dev/hda1) and if so how can I get around this? Please help! Matt
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 11:32, Matt Stamm wrote:
Hello, Thank you all for the help on this so farThis is an update to a previous post/thread.I'm still unable to install Suse 10 on my brandnew PC. The PC has a AMD Sempron 64 cpu, 512 mem80gig SATA harddrive.
Based on the my prevoius post and your responses(thank you very much!) I beleive the problem isdue to GRUB and my SATA drive, but I am not anexpert in the area.
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I wanted to put as much info as possible
Here's what I've found...
- my SUSE 10 install fails on the initial boot after the first CD with "GRUB Loading stag1.5".
- if I use the cd in rescue mode and login to the command prompt I see what looks like a linux install on my harddrive. So I'm assuming the first install was successful incopying files to mt hard drive. One note, I noticed that the/boot directory is empty.
- I can install FreeDOS successfully on this hard drive but need to perform the "FDISK /MBR" in order to make it boot to the hard drive properly. So, I can install another OS on the system/hard drive. I copied files, etc and everything went fine.
- and finally, I disconnected the SATA drive, installed an old 6gig drive in IDE2, and the install progressed past the first cd for the first time, performing the initial boot to the hard drive successfully.
So, I'm assuming the following, and please tell me where I'm wrong...
- the system and SATA hard drive works fine because the Suse install recognized the hard drive and copied files to it, and I could install FreeDOS successfully
- somewhere somehow the MBR is not finding GRUB stage1.5 after the first CD. From what I understand, the MBR contains GRUB stage 1, then finds stage 1.5 and 2 in something like /boot/grub.
Could the first CD install not be setting up GRUB to find stages 1.5 and beyond on the SATA drive (/dev/sda1) where it does not have that problem when there is a IDE drive (dev/hda1) and if so how can I get around this?
Please help!
Matt
Can you boot from the DVD insteasd of the CD then you do not get the first boot that is causing you the hassle .. ? ... or is it an cdset only cant beat the full load cd's and dvd you got all the choices then .. Pete . -- If Bill Gates had gotten LAID at High School do YOU think there would be a Microsoft ? Of course NOT ! You gotta spend a lot of time at your school Locker stuffing underware up your ass to think , I am going to take on the worlds Computer Industry -------:heard on Cyber Radio.:------- AFFA
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