[SPAM] Suse 10.2 install

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 10, 2007, Keith Antoine wrote:
>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.
>>> _______________________________________________

>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.

You should be able to boot from the SuSE installation CD, select install,
then it will give you an option to do repair things where you can fix the
boot configuration, write a new MBR, etc.

FWIW:  We don't use Reiserfs for anything, but use ext3 for the system's
root partition, and usually use xfs for /home and other data partitions.

Bill
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