Re: [opensuse] RC1 CD1 completes, reboots, then GRUB err 16

[john bartee]

Carl, I ran KILLDISK to wipe the drive and then tried a fresh RC1 install. It worked this time. The little GRUBS or bits left over from past installs on this crash and burn drive were the culprit. I do have an observation about the installer. In the past the installer prompted for CD2 while in the CD1 process ... then prompted for the other CDs if needed and then rebooted/finished.  Now after CD1 it reboots, and I think that is where the problem exists in an environment like I had. Thanks for all your help.. looks good so far. FYI, JB Carl Hartung wrote: On Saturday 10 September 2005 14:35, john bartee wrote: Carl, I will give that a go. I was not denigrating the product only letting the list know that the Release Candidate would not install for me -- which is a big deal if this is getting ready for prime time. I have never had any issues nor had to use such a manual kludge to install any of the many SUSE installations I have done over the years (maybe I am just lucky). I apologize for any sloppy reporting and will provide more precise diagnosis in the future. Hi John, It's only a "big deal" if it fails to install on a 'typical' newcomer's system... you know, M$haft eating up a single drive and, maybe, a new second drive installed for Linux. Most people with multiple OS's and many partitions on their systems are presumed, I think, to know how to deal with hiccups. The boot loader configuration module isn't sentient :-) much less perfect... so when it gets confused, you've got to be prepared to intervene. That's why I always check it before committing any changes. And the fact that neither of us has to do that very often is a testament to the ingenuity of everyone at SUSE. Also, I left out a couple of important points in case you are new to Grub. It starts counting at '0' and defaults to omitting /dev/hdb (presumed optical.) Example "grub speak": /dev/hda1 = hd0,0 /dev/hda2 = hd0,1 /dev/hda3 = hd0,2 ... /dev/hdc1 = hd1,0 /dev/hdc2 = hd1,1 /dev/hdc3 = hd1,2 and so on. So, if you see the directive "kernel (hd3,4)/boot/vmlinuz" in Grub's menu.lst (which resides in /boot/grub/) it is pointing to a Linux system installed on /dev/hde4. If you mount /dev/hde4 and don't see a /boot directory containing the files initrd or vmlinuz, you know that menu.lst entry is bogus. hth & regards, - Carl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _________________________________________________________________________ "I see circle people" - Master-OWC, analyst formerly known as Run-ODM