---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> Reply-To: bmarsh@bmarsh.com Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 09:51:08 -0500

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:39 am, Matt Stamm wrote:

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I'm recent pruchased a new PC with a single SATA drive. I was unable to install SUSE to this PC using the default install. Every install attempt resulted in a GRUB error on the initial boot after the first CD. Changing the bootloader from GRUB to LILO fixed the problem and resulted in a successfull install.

I'm concerned that I could not install SUSE with the default settings. It appears that SUSE, and the Linux community prefers GRUB and that GRUB is a more powerful bootloader than LILO. I do not plan on having any other OS on this PC other than SUSE.

Should I be concerned that I could not use GRUB?

What is the downside to using LILO instead of GRUB ?

Any advise or comment would be appreciated.

Matt

I have installed 10.0 on a machine with a SATA drive... an Intel motherboard -- so the problem must lie either with your hardware situation or possibly your BIOS settings for IDE/SATA.

It is possible that the SATA drive switched position (numbering) when the system rebooted.. and that a grub setting might cure the boot problem.

Bruce, I'm sure the BIOS setting is a possibility. I purchased the PC from Monarch Computer Systems. They offer PCs with Linux pre-installed and they just (last week) started offering SUSE 10 pre-installed. So I called them to get advise and they too are having problems. They have a single order for a SUSE 10 system and, as of Monday, have yet to get it out the door due to install problems. They sound much more GRUB experienced than I so they said they are working on a GRUB work-around. Concerning the BIOS setting, its a Phoenix BIOS. In order to access the SATA info you have to hit <TAB>. When you hit <DEL> to enter the normal BIOS stuff there is no mention of the SATA drives. The <TAB> section displays two channels, with nothing on channel one and my 80 gig drive on channel 0. Does this tell you what you need to know? Matt