Hi all, (I apologize for clogging your inboxes if this message is not kosher for this list. If you know a better place I can ask it, I'd really appreciate if you let me know....) I am trying to install SuSE 9 and am running into a peculiar problem with GRUB. I am a newbie when it comes to Linux installations-- I've only installed SuSE once (on the same machine - I'll sum up the changes below), and had no problems whatsoever. Perhaps you can clear this one up for me... I run the installation off CD. After the first CD is done copying, SuSE writes some stuff, among them the bootloader. As it is writing the bootloader, it throws an error box with the following: (I have to type this into another machine from the error screen, so I replace some boilerplate with ".......") --- Error message detail GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072 upper memory) [Minimal BASH-like editing ...... device/filename] grub> root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 grub> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,1)/grub/menu.lst Error 15: File not found grub> quit --- end My GRUB config files are as follows: --- /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/hda --- end --- /boot/grub/menu.lst color .... default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,1)/message title Linux kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31a splash=verbose acpi=force desktop hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,1)/initrd title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Failsafe kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,1)/initrd --- end --- /boot/grub/grub.conf root (hd0,1) install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,1)/grub/menu.lst quit --- end My partition configuration is as follows: hda1 - NTFS (Win2k) 25GB, mounted to /windows/C hda2 - reiser 100M mounted to /boot hda3 - swap hda4 - extended partition covering the rest of the disk hda5 - reiser 25GB mounted to / I'm running 500Mhz P3 on Chaintech 6BTM mobo with 512 MB RAM. There's one HD in the system: 120 GB Seagate Barracuda ST3120026A. Last time I installed SuSE, it was on the same machine, except the HD was Maxtor DiamondMax Plus L01J100 and the size of Win2k partition (hda1) was 15 GB instead of 25. It installed perfectly. I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks in advance. Boulat Bash bab13510@comcast.net
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 19.18, bab13510@comcast.net wrote:
--- Error message detail GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072 upper memory) [Minimal BASH-like editing ...... device/filename] grub> root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 grub> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,1)/grub/menu.lst
Error 15: File not found grub> quit
If you can get to a console on the machine (if you're in the installation, try switching to one of the virtual consoles, I forget which one has a command prompt, but try ctrl-alt-F1, ctrl-alt-F2 etc.) and check that you have /boot/boot as a symlink to . (itself). This is required when /boot is on a partition of its own, maybe yast failed to create it?!
The Tuesday 2004-01-27 at 18:18 -0000, bab13510@comcast.net wrote:
--- Error message detail GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072 upper memory) [Minimal BASH-like editing ...... device/filename] grub> root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 grub> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,1)/grub/menu.lst
Error 15: File not found grub> quit --- end
Do files /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/stage1 exist? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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