Greetings, people. I wonder if you can help us in this. A newbie friend is trying to install SUSE 10 onto his Windows box. (he is a power user of Windows, and he has no prob to understand what is going on with partitions, packages, etc). The box has two disks. /dev/hda, dev/hdb. During Setup, he selects Language (Greek) & KDE, then moves to Advanced as he was told to create custom partitions . He does the following partition configuration : /dev/hda1 with HPFS/NTFS mounts to /windows/C (main windoze) /dev/hda2 with ext3 mounts to /. He selects it to be formatted. /dev/hda3 as swap and selects it to be formatted. /dev/hdb1 with HPFS/NTFS mounts to /windows/D (data, essential docs, etc) Then he configures GRUB into MBR of /dev/hda as follows: SuSE Linux 10.0 /boot/vmlinux (/dev/hda2, root=/dev/hda2) Windows Floppy FailSafe Memory Test default boot partition: /dev/hda1 When the software is installed the system is rebooted and the following message appears: GNU GRUB version 0,96 (639K lower .... upper memory) [Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename] grub> It seems that grub is installed but not properly. Why is that? Do you have any suggestions? I mean, anything will be welcomed because I would really like to help the guy. He is programming in C, C++,PHP, etc and he is preparing his migration a long time now. It is a pity that SUSE (IMHO the best distro) isnt working for him. Thanks in advance, --Dimitris Kalamaras
Dimitris Kalamaras wrote:
Greetings, people.
It seems that grub is installed but not properly. Why is that? Do you have any suggestions?
if he can manage to boot his suse install (for example with the install cd), let yast do the grub thing. yast is very good on this respect. as of to boot manually with grub, search "grub" on the wiki, there are many references jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:15, Dimitris Kalamaras wrote:
GNU GRUB version 0,96 (639K lower .... upper memory) [Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename]
I've seen this happening recently with NLD9 SP3 on a machine with a peculiar BIOS/disk combination. Gigabyte motherboard it was. I was wiping out the MBR with zeroes and then, at POST, the disk would show as LBA. Then, after first part of installation the POST would display it as CHS. Booting with the CD and trying to reinstall grub manually, it would complain about cylinders. I know that the 1024 cylinder limit is a thing of the past, so I don't know what was the problem. I have solved it by installing SUSE10, then NLD9 SP3 without formating. :-( SUSE10 didn't turn the disk access method into CHS. 1. See if your friends motherboard has a BIOS update. 2. Try LILO. It's inferior to grub, but it's an alternative and it's included in SUSE. Before doing any stunts, make a backup of the MBR: dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1 Copy mbr.bak somewhere safe. To restore: dd if=mbr.bak of=/dev/hda
I would try to map it to "/dev/hda1" then, and _only_ the Linux extry must be mapped to "/dev/hda2". Better yet, is to use SUSE defaults, if you are unsure.
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