[SPAM] Suse 10.2 install

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 16:14 +1000, James McDonald wrote:
> 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.

Someone made mention that SuSe uses Reiser FS so maybe the Knoppix CD
would have a problem mounting the file system?? Ric