Re: [opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows partition

2008-01-30 Thread jdd
Marc Chamberlin a écrit : I had something go drastically wrong with a Windows XP partition on a dual boot system (with SuSE) which is preventing it (Windows) from there is no reason to do any such thing to have openSUSE/xp/vista run together (I have all them three). However, most of the

Re: [opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows partition

2008-01-30 Thread jdd
jdd a écrit : Marc Chamberlin a écrit : I had something go drastically wrong with a Windows XP partition on a dual boot system (with SuSE) which is preventing it (Windows) from there is no reason to do any such thing to have openSUSE/xp/vista run together (I have all them three). However,

[opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows partition

2008-01-29 Thread Marc Chamberlin
I had something go drastically wrong with a Windows XP partition on a dual boot system (with SuSE) which is preventing it (Windows) from booting up properly. So I decided to purchase a second drive and create a new partition on this disk drive and reinstall Windows XP there. To accomplish

Re: [opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows partition

2008-01-29 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Chamberlin wrote: | | So I am lost and confused... Can anyone offer me advise on how to get | this stubborn boot loader to do what I want it to? (That is to allow me | to boot up my new second Win XP?) I REALLY do NOT want to have to |

Re: [opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows partition

2008-01-29 Thread Basil Chupin
Marc Chamberlin wrote: I had something go drastically wrong with a Windows XP partition on a dual boot system (with SuSE) which is preventing it (Windows) from booting up properly. So I decided to purchase a second drive and create a new partition on this disk drive and reinstall Windows XP

Re: [opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows partition

2008-01-29 Thread John Bennett
On Jan 30, 2008 1:08 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Chamberlin wrote: | | So I am lost and confused... Can anyone offer me advise on how to get | this stubborn boot loader to do what I want it to? (That is to allow me | to boot up my

RE: [opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows partition

2008-01-29 Thread Philip Dowie
is what you want in the winblows section of your grub.conf: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) -Original Message- From: John Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 4:31 p.m. To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows

Re: [opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows partition

2008-01-29 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 08:26:10 pm Marc Chamberlin wrote: [...] So I am lost and confused... Can anyone offer me advise on how to get this stubborn boot loader to do what I want it to? (That is to allow me to boot up my new second Win XP?) I REALLY do NOT want to have to reinstall SuSE as

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21 (SOLVED)

2008-01-21 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat 19 Jan 2008 08:29:11 EST Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3

[opensuse] Grub Error 21 (SOLVED) hijacked to: Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-21 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Marcin Floryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-21-08 05:00]: On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:06:02 -, Philippe Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to get over this, and since then I only pop over to the XP side to play games. I wonder if I hadn't had such a

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-20 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Philippe Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat 19 Jan 2008 08:21:16 EST You are tenacious, Dave, great :-) Some may say tenacious, others would say that I am too stupid to know when to give up. ;) Still no joy with Lilo ? Kind regards Philippe

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-01-18 at 09:48 +1100, Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-20 Thread Olaf Dabrunz
On 19-Jan-08, Dave Barton wrote: OK, I believe I have tried just about every GRUB alternative option and come up blank every time. In desperation, I used fixmbr from the XP CD and deleted all partitions from the second drive. Started a totally clean 10.3 install and accepted the default

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21 (SOLVED)

2008-01-20 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat 19 Jan 2008 08:29:11 EST Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 8-- snip --8 Have

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21 (SOLVED)

2008-01-20 Thread David C. Rankin
Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat 19 Jan 2008 08:29:11 EST Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-19 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 18 January 2008 12:29:38 am Aaron Kulkis wrote: I ran into this not long ago. If I recall, the only thing required to fix it was to boot from the dvd, drop to a console as root and type grub-install /dev/sda reboot probably a mount command in there someplace too, eh?

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Chee How Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat 19 Jan 2008 04:01:07 EST On Jan 18, 2008 10:26 AM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check on the boot loader installation tab, to see where it's booting from. David, can you post your /etc/grub.conf here?

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-18 Thread Chee How Chua
On Jan 18, 2008 10:26 AM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check on the boot loader installation tab, to see where it's booting from. David, can you post your /etc/grub.conf here? I'm curious as to where you installed your boot loader. I'm guessing the complication for Dave (OP) is on the

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-18 Thread David C. Rankin
Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no problem. Created a FAT32 partition on hd1 using 50% of the disk capacity, leaving

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-18 Thread Aaron Kulkis
David C. Rankin wrote: James Knott wrote: Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no problem. Created a FAT32 partition on hd1

[opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread Dave Barton
I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no problem. Created a FAT32 partition on hd1 using 50% of the disk capacity, leaving remainder unallocated

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread David C. Rankin
James Knott wrote: Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no problem. Created a FAT32 partition on hd1 using 50% of the disk

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no problem. Created a FAT32 partition on hd1 using 50% of the disk capacity, leaving

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message Subject: Re:[opensuse] Grub Error 21 From: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SUSE Linux opensuse@opensuse.org Date: Fri 18 Jan 2008 10:09:11 EST Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message Subject: Re:[opensuse] Grub Error 21 From: David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: suse opensuse@opensuse.org Date: Fri 18 Jan 2008 10:27:54 EST James Knott wrote: Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread Philippe Landau
Dave Barton wrote: Thanks for the quick reply James. I have been trying a number of different options in the GRUB configuration, but so far I have no luck. Without going through the install DVD, I continually come back to the Error 21 :( There are a few areas where the blatant lack of good

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread David C. Rankin
Dave Barton wrote: Original Message Subject: Re:[opensuse] Grub Error 21 From: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SUSE Linux opensuse@opensuse.org Date: Fri 18 Jan 2008 10:09:11 EST Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message Subject: Re:[opensuse] Grub Error 21 From: David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: suse opensuse@opensuse.org Date: Fri 18 Jan 2008 11:31:47 EST Dave Barton wrote: Original Message Subject: Re:[opensuse] Grub Error 21 From: James Knott [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread David C. Rankin
Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no problem. Created a FAT32 partition on hd1 using 50% of the disk capacity, leaving

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri 18 Jan 2008 12:08:02 EST Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 8-- snip --8 Thanks

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
Dave Barton wrote: Original Message Subject: Re:[opensuse] Grub Error 21 From: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SUSE Linux opensuse@opensuse.org Date: Fri 18 Jan 2008 10:09:11 EST Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-27 Thread David C. Rankin
Bjørn Lie wrote: man, 24.12.2007 kl. 17.28 -0500, skrev Ken Schneider: I provided ftp://beta.suse.com/private/10.3-repair-mini so that David could choose the version he needed. Why he would need a link to a specific one I don't know. Or he didn't cut and paste the info correct. It seemed

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-27 Thread Ken Schneider
David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote: Bjørn Lie wrote: man, 24.12.2007 kl. 17.28 -0500, skrev Ken Schneider: I provided ftp://beta.suse.com/private/10.3-repair-mini so that David could choose the version he needed. Why he would need a link to a specific one I don't know. Or he

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-27 Thread David C. Rankin
David C. Rankin wrote: Now we will see if it can fix the raid problem (fingers crossed) No dice, raid problem remain. Repair iso doesn't deal with raid issues. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-27 Thread Ken Schneider
David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Now we will see if it can fix the raid problem (fingers crossed) No dice, raid problem remain. Repair iso doesn't deal with raid issues. bummer! Sorry to hear that. I suppose the only option left is a re-install. Do

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-25 Thread Bjørn Lie
man, 24.12.2007 kl. 17.28 -0500, skrev Ken Schneider: I provided ftp://beta.suse.com/private/10.3-repair-mini so that David could choose the version he needed. Why he would need a link to a specific one I don't know. Or he didn't cut and paste the info correct. It seemed simple enough to

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-24 Thread Ken Schneider
David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote: Ken Schneider wrote: Please post the contents of /boot/grub/device.map and /boot/grub/menu.lst God I hope you can help with this mess. Here are the files! (thank God I could get the network up even though install has never gotten to the

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-24 Thread David C. Rankin
Ken Schneider wrote: David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote: quit I can't help further, just wanted to check for the obvious. For a repair cd for 10.3 check here: ftp://beta.suse.com/private/10.3-repair-mini it may help your situation. Where is the repair mini ISO? I can't

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-24 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon December 24 2007 09:32, David C. Rankin wrote: Where is the repair mini ISO? I can't find it at the link you provide or at opensuse? He pointed to the directory that has the 3 versions of the mini ISO. Here is the link directly to the i386 version:

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/12/24 16:01 (GMT-0700) Carlos F Lange apparently typed: On Mon December 24 2007 09:32, David C. Rankin wrote: Where is the repair mini ISO? I can't find it at the link you provide or at opensuse? He pointed to the directory that has the 3 versions of the mini ISO. Here is the link

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-24 Thread Ken Schneider
Felix Miata pecked at the keyboard and wrote: On 2007/12/24 16:01 (GMT-0700) Carlos F Lange apparently typed: On Mon December 24 2007 09:32, David C. Rankin wrote: Where is the repair mini ISO? I can't find it at the link you provide or at opensuse? He pointed to the directory that has

Re: [opensuse] Grub strangeness

2007-12-23 Thread eddie
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 21:37:23 Tim Hempstead wrote: Hi, I've been fighting about with my 10.3 system today and have been having a few issues with Grub and I was wondering if anyone knew why they were happening. I have a server running 32bit 10.3. This system has a Gigabyte Intel

Re: [opensuse] Grub strangeness

2007-12-23 Thread Tim Hempstead
On Dec 23, 2007 8:56 AM, eddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 December 2007 21:37:23 Tim Hempstead wrote: Hi, I've been fighting about with my 10.3 system today and have been having a few issues with Grub and I was wondering if anyone knew why they were happening. ...

Re: [opensuse] Grub strangeness

2007-12-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/12/23 09:57 (GMT) Tim Hempstead apparently typed: On Dec 23, 2007 8:56 AM, eddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 December 2007 21:37:23 Tim Hempstead wrote: I've been fighting about with my 10.3 system today and have been having a few issues with Grub and I was wondering

[opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-23 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, I can't get grub to boot a fresh 10.3 install from my promise SATA raid controller with two new 320G drives in RAID 1. I thought I knew GRUB, but RAID is completely new to me. I really, really need HELP! I have included as much information as I can including the screen messages

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-23 Thread Ken Schneider
David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote: Listmates, I can't get grub to boot a fresh 10.3 install from my promise SATA raid controller with two new 320G drives in RAID 1. I thought I knew GRUB, but RAID is completely new to me. I really, really need HELP! I have included as

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-23 Thread David C. Rankin
Ken Schneider wrote: Please post the contents of /boot/grub/device.map and /boot/grub/menu.lst God I hope you can help with this mess. Here are the files! (thank God I could get the network up even though install has never gotten to the point of setting the root password or users)

Re: [opensuse] Grub strangeness

2007-12-20 Thread Tim Hempstead
Chee, I don't think it's due to the RAID configuration as the OS is not running on that and it is a simple RAID setup, (single md0 with all disks except system) Tim On Dec 20, 2007 5:37 AM, Chee How Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 5:37 AM, Tim Hempstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[opensuse] Grub strangeness

2007-12-19 Thread Tim Hempstead
Hi, I've been fighting about with my 10.3 system today and have been having a few issues with Grub and I was wondering if anyone knew why they were happening. I have a server running 32bit 10.3. This system has a Gigabyte Intel chipset motherboard with 6 SATA ports on the Intel controller and 2

Re: [opensuse] Grub strangeness

2007-12-19 Thread Chee How Chua
On Dec 20, 2007 5:37 AM, Tim Hempstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been fighting about with my 10.3 system today and have been having a few issues with Grub and I was wondering if anyone knew why they were happening. I have a server running 32bit 10.3. This system has a Gigabyte

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-27 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 26 October 2007 04:55:41 pm Clive Rogers wrote: Hi Rajko, [...] Since 10.2 openSUSE is using generic bootloader that will boot any partition marked bootable independent of installed operating system. Right now my friend is trying out different versions of LInux so I am not sure

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-27 Thread Clive Rogers
HI Rajko, On Saturday 27 October 2007 08:31:29 Rajko M. wrote: On Friday 26 October 2007 04:55:41 pm Clive Rogers wrote: Hi Rajko, [...] Since 10.2 openSUSE is using generic bootloader that will boot any partition marked bootable independent of installed operating system. Right

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD -- Fixed

2007-10-27 Thread Clive Rogers
Finally got grub on a CD to boot my friends Kubuntu. If anyone is interested I can tell you how it was done. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD -- Fixed

2007-10-27 Thread Bryen
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:49 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: Finally got grub on a CD to boot my friends Kubuntu. If anyone is interested I can tell you how it was done. -- Kindest regards, Clive Yes, I'd like to hear your solution. Can you post it for us? ---Bryen--- -- To

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD -- Fixed

2007-10-27 Thread Clive Rogers
On Saturday 27 October 2007 23:04:42 Bryen wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:49 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: Finally got grub on a CD to boot my friends Kubuntu. If anyone is interested I can tell you how it was done. -- Kindest regards, Clive Yes, I'd like to hear your solution. Can

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-26 Thread Clive Rogers
Hi Carlos, On Friday 26 October 2007 01:32:47 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 23:02 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD snip Also, if his machine can boot from the usb, I think you could install grub there. -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-26 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 26 October 2007 04:39:28 am Clive Rogers wrote: Hi Carlos, On Friday 26 October 2007 01:32:47 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 23:02 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD snip Also, if his machine can boot from the usb, I think you

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-26 Thread Clive Rogers
Hi Rajko, On Friday 26 October 2007 18:36:25 Rajko M. wrote: snip Clive, what is the problem with my explanation? Nothing as far as I can see. I had a look around the internet for my own benefit. Since 10.2 openSUSE is using generic bootloader that will boot any partition marked

[opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Clive Rogers
Hello All, I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr. So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Sebastian Brandt
Clive Rogers schrieb: Hello All, I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr. So my question is can grub be put onto a

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread David C. Rankin J.D. P.E.
Clive Rogers wrote: Hello All, I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr. So my question is can grub be put onto a

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 18:12 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ? If he can how would he go about putting a

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:12:46 pm Clive Rogers wrote: Hello All, I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr. So my

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Clive Rogers
On Thursday 25 October 2007 18:32:13 David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: Clive Rogers wrote: Hello All, I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Clive Rogers
On Thursday 25 October 2007 20:15:10 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 18:12 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ? If he can how would he go about

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Clive Rogers wrote: Hello All, I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr. So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Clive Rogers
On Thursday 25 October 2007 22:26:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote: Clive Rogers wrote: Hello All, I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Clive Rogers wrote: On Thursday 25 October 2007 20:15:10 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 18:12 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ? If he can how

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Clive Rogers wrote: On Thursday 25 October 2007 22:26:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote: Clive Rogers wrote: Hello All, I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 21:56 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: Of course, he needs a floppy drive first... And I haven't tried this procedure with Linux, only with msdos; so I can't certify it works. He don't have a floppy on his laptop. Then,

Re: [opensuse] Grub on CD

2007-10-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 23:02 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD Agreed. I also told him this but he is adamant he want to put the CD into the drive and let it boot from there with no further interaction from

[opensuse] grub problem

2007-10-07 Thread Fazer
Hello After system crash time of loading GRUB is sth. about 30 sec I chech my disks using 10.2 instalation other system repair (on 10.3 is no working after kloking system repair computer just reset - 32 bit) but ii didn't help I thing that aI should scan my basic partition or MBR or

[opensuse] GRUB gfxmenu editing?

2007-09-09 Thread Anders Norrbring
I'm having problems getting a new /boot/message file to work. I unpacked the old one with cpio, changed the back.jpg, repacked it all, recreated initrd and all I could think of. At reboot, I get the graphic menu, but the image doesn't turn up, it's all black instead. Any ideas on where I

Re: [opensuse] GRUB gfxmenu editing?

2007-09-09 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Anders Norrbring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having problems getting a new /boot/message file to work. I unpacked the old one with cpio, changed the back.jpg, repacked it all, recreated initrd and all I could think of. At reboot, I get the graphic menu, but the image doesn't turn up, it's

Re: [opensuse] GRUB gfxmenu editing?

2007-09-09 Thread Anders Norrbring
Andreas Jaeger skrev: Anders Norrbring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having problems getting a new /boot/message file to work. I unpacked the old one with cpio, changed the back.jpg, repacked it all, recreated initrd and all I could think of. At reboot, I get the graphic menu, but the image

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Hard Disk Error

2007-07-08 Thread Jos van Kan
Hugo Garcia wrote: Hi Working on a Toshiba Qosmio g10. The machine is a dual boot system. It used to have Mandriva 2005 on it. We decided to install SuSE 10.2 on it. We wiped out the old partition and reformatted it, installed SuSE and when we reboot then we get the 'GRUB Hard Disk Error.

[opensuse] GRUB Hard Disk Error

2007-07-07 Thread Hugo Garcia
Hi Working on a Toshiba Qosmio g10. The machine is a dual boot system. It used to have Mandriva 2005 on it. We decided to install SuSE 10.2 on it. We wiped out the old partition and reformatted it, installed SuSE and when we reboot then we get the 'GRUB Hard Disk Error. If we boot off the SuSE

Re: [opensuse] GRUB

2007-04-18 Thread Alexey Eremenko
If you change your BIOS settings, you should not change your GRUB. That is, if your BIOS is set to boot from CD-ROM, you don't need GRUB that boots from CD-ROM, as it is already built into the SUSE CD. But if you boot from HDD, you definetely need to add boot from CD option to GRUB. I don't

Re: [opensuse] Grub won't boot Windoze

2007-04-18 Thread Mike McCallister
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:09, Darryl Gregorash wrote: snip Is that XP? If so, you should not need to remap the drives at all. Where was it originally installed? To the first partition on the second drive? (D: in Windows-speak). If so, then your Windows section should read: rootnoverify

Re: [opensuse] Grub won't boot Windoze

2007-04-18 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-04-18 19:55, Mike McCallister wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:09, Darryl Gregorash wrote: snip Is that XP? If so, you should not need to remap the drives at all. Where was it originally installed? To the first partition on the second drive? (D: in Windows-speak). If

Re: [opensuse] Grub won't boot Windoze

2007-04-17 Thread Mike McCallister
On Sunday 15 April 2007 11:50, Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 15 April 2007 10:55, Mike McCallister wrote: Hi folks! For some reason, Windoze has stopped booting on my system. I've had this machine for a couple years now, with WinXP sitting on a SATA physical drive and SUSE 10.0 - 10.2 on a

Re: [opensuse] Grub won't boot Windoze

2007-04-17 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-04-17 06:35, Mike McCallister wrote: On Sunday 15 April 2007 11:50, Rajko M. wrote: snip title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd1,0) +1 title Windows map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive

[opensuse] GRUB

2007-04-17 Thread Danesh Daroui
Hi all, I use OpenSuse with GRUB installed. I want to install another OS but GRUB doesn't let me to boot from CD. How can I change the setting of GRUB so my system can be booted from CD if it is set in BIOS to boot from CD? Thanks, D. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] GRUB

2007-04-17 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-04-17 13:38, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I use OpenSuse with GRUB installed. I want to install another OS but GRUB doesn't let me to boot from CD. How can I change the setting of GRUB so my system can be booted from CD if it is set in BIOS to boot from CD? Grub should have nothing

Re: [opensuse] GRUB

2007-04-17 Thread David Miller
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:38:45 Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I use OpenSuse with GRUB installed. I want to install another OS but GRUB doesn't let me to boot from CD. How can I change the setting of GRUB so my system can be booted from CD if it is set in BIOS to boot from CD? Thanks,

Re: [opensuse] GRUB

2007-04-17 Thread Mike McMullin
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:38 +0200, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I use OpenSuse with GRUB installed. I want to install another OS but GRUB doesn't let me to boot from CD. How can I change the setting of GRUB so my system can be booted from CD if it is set in BIOS to boot from CD? Ok,

[opensuse] Grub won't boot Windoze

2007-04-15 Thread Mike McCallister
Hi folks! For some reason, Windoze has stopped booting on my system. I've had this machine for a couple years now, with WinXP sitting on a SATA physical drive and SUSE 10.0 - 10.2 on a separate IDE drive. I think the problem started when I got a portable USB drive that I had to turn off when

Re: [opensuse] Grub won't boot Windoze

2007-04-15 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 15 April 2007 10:55, Mike McCallister wrote: Hi folks! For some reason, Windoze has stopped booting on my system. I've had this machine for a couple years now, with WinXP sitting on a SATA physical drive and SUSE 10.0 - 10.2 on a separate IDE drive. I think the problem started when

[opensuse] grub stuffup

2007-04-11 Thread scsijon
could someone please print in a message (not attached) a copy of the standard grub file for 10.2 please was a bad night last night (double shifts two nights in a row) and i've done something wrong somewhere thanks scsijon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] grub stuffup

2007-04-11 Thread Rajko M.
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 06:20, scsijon wrote: could someone please print in a message (not attached) a copy of the standard grub file for 10.2 please was a bad night last night (double shifts two nights in a row) and i've done something wrong somewhere thanks scsijon Do mean

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-06 Thread frank nelson
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest question for me here is why does the linucs boot cd hide the boot to an installed system option so hard. I have always wondered about that and i wish the suse boyz and gals change it it really belongs to the very first boot disk screen,

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-04-04 at 00:37 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The biggest question for me here is why does the linucs boot cd hide the boot to an installed system option so hard. I have always wondered about that and i wish the suse

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-06 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 06 April 2007 04:25, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... The biggest question for me here is why does the linucs boot cd hide the boot to an installed system option so hard. I have always wondered about that and i wish the suse boyz and gals change it it really belongs to the very

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-06 at 05:19 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: It would be very nice to have it ealier, though... What would be nice to have early is advanced options menu item, that will allow experienced users to use few exotic boot or installation

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-06 Thread jdd
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-06 at 05:19 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: It would be very nice to have it ealier, though... What would be nice to have early is advanced options menu item, that will allow experienced users to use few exotic boot

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-06 at 13:35 +0200, jdd wrote: An advanced rescue disk, perhaps, with things like boot installed system, without having to boot the graphical install system, which takes a long time. And mc in it ;-) and i18n for

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-06 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 06 April 2007 05:58, Carlos E. R. wrote: And mc in it ;-) Wouldn't hurt :-) -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-04 Thread jdd
Doug McGarrett wrote: It's absolutely ridiculous that a boot manager should share its secrets over two drives. This is an excellent example of why not. this is what _you_ did. install XP on a drive, install linux and grub on the other (not on the mbr) and switch booting in the bios you

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-04 Thread John Summerfield
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 12:28, Doug McGarrett wrote: I suppose this should go to the bugzilla thing, but I don't know how to get there, and those who do that probably read here. On another computer, which is down partly for this reason, I had XP on the first hard drive, and SuSE 10.0 on

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-04-04 at 16:49 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: It's absolutely ridiculous that a boot manager should share its secrets over two drives. This is an excellent example of why not. Who configured it that way? Posibly grub

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