I will attest from the beginning that I made a mistake in upgrading 10.1 to 10.2. That said, here is the problem. Grub loads stage 1.5. Then GRUB is Loading. Please Wait... The computer then reboots endlessly through this cycle, but no boot menu. I have tried reloading grub to MBR, to /dev/hda, to /dev/hda5. I have done this with using the DVD to boot installed system--that works, but I am unable to get any different result. I tried the grub command line: root (hd0,4)>>setup (hd0) I tried to write generic code to MBR. Nothing allows me to boot properly at startup. I even tried Repair an Installed System with Automatic and Expert modes, still nothing. Windows XP on (hd0,0) will not boot under any condition, even though I tried starting in Installation, Aborting and choosing boot /dev/hda1. I have read the archives and tried everything I found there. Nothing has worked. Any suggestions? Ed Harrison, Linux User # 199533 SuSE10.0, Kernel 2.6.16.21-0.21 PolarBar Mailer 1.26 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ed Harrison wrote:
I will attest from the beginning that I made a mistake in upgrading 10.1 to 10.2.
That said, here is the problem. Grub loads stage 1.5. Then GRUB is Loading. Please Wait...
Sounds like it cannot find your boot directory. Odd, since that is where stage 1.5 is. What is your file system?
I tried the grub command line:
root (hd0,4)>>setup (hd0)
I would suggest booting with the rescue system, mounting your / to /mnt, and if you have a separate boot partition mounting it to /mnt/boot, then cd to /mnt, then chroot /mnt. Then, enter grub, run root (hd0,4), then setup (hd0) and make sure it finds everything and there are no errors. quit to exit grub, then exit to exit the chroot, then shutdown -r now to reboot. That process has always worked for me. All this assumes config files are correct, like your menu.lst, initrd, etc. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 19:15 -0500, Ed Harrison wrote:
I will attest from the beginning that I made a mistake in upgrading 10.1 to 10.2.
That said, here is the problem. Grub loads stage 1.5. Then GRUB is Loading. Please Wait...
The computer then reboots endlessly through this cycle, but no boot menu.
I have tried reloading grub to MBR, to /dev/hda, to /dev/hda5. I have done this with using the DVD to boot installed system--that works, but I am unable to get any different result.
I tried the grub command line:
root (hd0,4)>>setup (hd0)
I tried to write generic code to MBR.
Nothing allows me to boot properly at startup.
I even tried Repair an Installed System with Automatic and Expert modes, still nothing.
Windows XP on (hd0,0) will not boot under any condition, even though I tried starting in Installation, Aborting and choosing boot /dev/hda1.
I have read the archives and tried everything I found there.
Nothing has worked.
Any suggestions?
Ed Harrison, Linux User # 199533 SuSE10.0, Kernel 2.6.16.21-0.21 PolarBar Mailer 1.26
I had a similar problem excdpt that I was doing a new install and have 4 disk drives, 3 sata and and IDE. Done the same as you with no results. I then disconnected the other 3 drives and tried again with the recover, same thing. I then done a reinstall and it then worked. When it was not working I looked at the boot menu.lst. It had root (/dev/sda2) and other strangeness. After the reinstall on the single disk, it was back to the normal {hd0,1) Art -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Dec 9 2006 19:15, Ed Harrison wrote:
I will attest from the beginning that I made a mistake in upgrading 10.1 to 10.2.
That said, here is the problem. Grub loads stage 1.5. Then GRUB is Loading. Please Wait...
The computer then reboots endlessly through this cycle, but no boot menu.
I have tried reloading grub to MBR, to /dev/hda, to /dev/hda5. I have done this with using the DVD to boot installed system--that works, but I am unable to get any different result.
Sounds like you just hit bug #223773. To bad Novell does not seem interested in 'fixing' it.
Any suggestions?
See comment #12 case #3. (And disregard comment #13, stage 1.5 has a purpose!) -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2006-12-10 04:03, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Sounds like you just hit bug #223773. To bad Novell does not seem interested in 'fixing' it.
Re-open it, and make sure to say why. There is no reason at all why a publicly-viewable bug should be marked a duplicate of one that only the Inner Sanctum is privileged to read. I cannot recall the number, but I just saw a bug yesterday or Friday that was reopened by a SuSE employee, for just this reason. Maybe I will do the same thing with my Yast firewall configuration bug report. -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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