[SPAM] Suse 10.2 install

[Keith Antoine]

James McDonald wrote:
>>   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.
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I felt that it was not coplete after sending. Yes multiple drives 2 IDE
and 4 sata. The machine is used for photos up to 400mb each and needs lotsa space I and used a 2.27 swap and 39gig as slash partition; on drive #3which is the 4th drive. Suse gives up on grub so it is not installed at all. I'll have to get knoppix if I can as I have tried downloading but its errored out twice. However Suse has given up on grub so its also not installed properly, I need it to finish and then I can rewrite grub loader.

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