On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 06:58, linuxjim wrote:

Hi,

I did a fresh install of Suse 9.1. Ever since I have a problem with booting up. Sometimes the startup screen says Grub error...., sometimes it dosen't get that far, the bios reports that the hard drive can't be found. (I have two physical drives, suse on hdb). Most of the time it gets to the selection/countdown screen with no problem then when it gets to the suse screen where you can select F2 for verbose, it hangs there for about 5 minutes before the boot process continues. It runs normally after that.

I should clarify this new install was on a newly configured box, with an Abit NF7 mobo with a 2500 Athlon. The only hardware I reused were the 2 hard drives. I have the bios set for both drives on automatic. The suse drive (hdb) is a newer WD 100G drive and did not have problems with it in a previous box. Both drives are ATA, I don't have SATA configured.

Any suggestions welcome

boot the first disk select new installation. under that menu is an option to repair existing installation. run it twice to be sure. I thought I had a foolproof suggestion given to me for tar backup so I could rework the partitions. It wasnt so I used the repair. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/