[SPAM] Suse 10.2 install

[James McDonald]

Keith Antoine wrote:
> Tried to install Suse to a partition on one of my sata drives. Install went 
> fine until grub install where it has an error and will not finish installing 
> grub. At this point one has no option other than quitting, and of course I 
> cannot continue or do a boot, or a dual boot.
>
> Where to from here, remembering that i have only two brain cells now and these 
> are stressed :)
>
> Skippy
>   
I'm not sure what foibles Suse has but I wouuld boot from a Knoppix  CD. 
Knoppix will mount the Harddisks it finds. Find your Suse /boot 
partiotion and have a look at the grub.conf or menu.lst or whatever suse 
uses and see if it's written sensible values. Also check the 
boot/device.map file which should have something like (hd0) /dev/hda in 
it. I have found install programs that get the harddisks around the 
wrong way and fail (eg. hd0 is actually hd1 when the computer boots).

Once you have checked the grub files are correct you may be able to 
repair the grub boot loader using grub-install /dev/hd[YourBootDrive] of 
Knoppix. However if you have a multiple disk setup you should be 
checking which drive and partition is bootable using fdisk and 
installing the grub loader there.

You haven't given enough detail so the above is the best I can 
combobulate on what you have written.