Re: GRUB Mystery

2005-07-24 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Jul 19 at 9:05am, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: On Monday 18 July 2005 11:57 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: I've admitted to myself I'll never fully understand Grub. I feel better for having some company. I suspect the root cause for a good portion of the trouble surrounding boot loaders is the horri

Re: GRUB Mystery

2005-07-20 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Monday 18 July 2005 08:39 pm, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: > I can boot in from the floppy described below. If I boot choice > 2 from the first scsi (my normal boot), it hangs after mounting > /proc. I can see from the screen dump that it is loading Linux 2.4 > modules from sda2, which won't work

Re: GRUB Mystery

2005-07-19 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Monday 18 July 2005 11:57 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Jul 18, 2005, at 20:39, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: > > I am running out of experiments to try. > > I've admitted to myself I'll never fully understand Grub. Every time > I go back to it I wind up getting mixed up, figuring it out again, > gettin

Re: GRUB Mystery

2005-07-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 18, 2005, at 20:39, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: I am running out of experiments to try. I've admitted to myself I'll never fully understand Grub. Every time I go back to it I wind up getting mixed up, figuring it out again, getting things working, then forgetting it. :) Either I'm too dumb

GRUB Mystery

2005-07-18 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Greetings, I just installed SuSE 9.3 on an alternate drive, and I want to boot into it from the normal GRUB menu. The main and clone drives have SuSE 8.2, which is stable and working well. (Why I am upgrading, I can't guess.) I can boot in from the floppy described below. If I boot