If I try to boot Linux from the hard disk, it will flash "Grub loading stage 1.5..." and then the screen goes black and it just sits there.
What I meant by the two copies of stage2 was that fresh from an install, I ran the command: "md5sum /boot/grub/stage2 /usr/lib/grub/stage2" and it came back with two different hashes. I didn't think that was supposed to be the case. If I select "Windows" from the GRUB menu, XP comes up just fine. Linux, however, just sits. It seems to be something similar to this: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223773 But I don't know if it is exactly or not... My menu.lst looks like this (for this email, I am not including all the YAST-inserted comments): default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message title openSUSE 10.2 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-34-default root=/dev/sda title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1 title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2 -- My device.map is fairly simple: (hd0,0) /dev/sda -- My grub.conf says: setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,5) quit -- Again, any help is appreciated. --- "Joe Morris (NTM)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Dick wrote: > > I recently installed SuSE 10.2 on a couple of > machines > > using SATA drives and they each seem to be > exhibiting > > a similar problem. > > > Which are??? > > They won't boot unless I choose "Boot installed > > system" from the CD. > > > So you are booting from the cd/dvd? Are you booting > from the mbr of > your HDs? Is your BIOS pointing to the HD to boot > from? > > I did a check, and right from the get-go the two > > copies of Stage2 are not the same. MD5 comes up > with > > a different hash for each, though I was under the > > impression that they were supposed to be the same. > > > I believe they are specific for the system so that > would be normal > unless these are exactly the same hardware, etc., in > both. > > GRUB definitely loads, but just stops cold after > the > > Stage 1.5. > AFTER? stage 1.5 is the stage it loads to read the > file system to read > the rest of its info. This means it has to looking > in the right place. > > On the machine that also has Windows, the > > WinXP install comes up just fine. But Linux is > dead. > > > This makes no sense to me. Does it start from grub? > If so, this has to > be after stage 2. Then the problem has to be in > either your menu.lst or > possibly your device.map. We would need more > specific info to > troubleshoot your problem, hopefully info that is > not conflicting with > itself. ;-) > > -- > Joe Morris > Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 > x86_64 > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
