Thanks to all those who responded. The problem was the same old infamous 1024 cylinder issue. SUSE was expecting /boot to be within first 1024 cylinders but the 2GB disk (/dev/hda) had already occupied all of it. Since I did not want to delete/format my disk, I ended up using fips to free up about 50MB from /dev/hda and mounted / on it. That did the trick. Rest of the system (/usr, /var, etc.) still resides on my other disk (30GB, /dev/hdc).
Last time I used fips was way back in 97, on this very PC :-) Regards, Nishi > -----Original Message----- > From: Kapoor, Nishikant X > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:43 AM > To: ILUG-D Mailing List > Subject: [ilugd] Error saving bootloader configuration > > > Hello List, > > I am trying to install SUSE 8.2 on my Pentium 133 with 80M > RAM and 2G+30G disks. Here is the setup I am trying to configure: > > 30G disk (/dev/hdd): /boot - 4G > / - 4G > /swap - 512M > /usr - 11G > > The 2G disk is /dev/hda and has Win* on it. > > After the repartitioning and copying 'Default System' from > CDs to hard disk, it gives an error: > > "An error occured during saving bootloader configuration". > > YaST2 (SUSE 8.1 onwards) uses GRUB instead of LILO for boot > loader and apparently, is having problem saving the config > file on disk. Where is it trying to save it? Unless it is > trying to use /dev/hda, I don't see how it can run out of > disk space or for that matter, permission issues. It has > complete access to /dev/hdc and there is plenty of room in it. > > This system already has Win95 and Win2K installed on it on > /dev/hda and uses Win2K boot loader. Could it be that > SUSE/GRUB is not able to overwrite the Win2K bootloader? > > Regards, > Nishi > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
