Carlos E. R. wrote:
> If /etc/grub.conf is bad, Yast intalls grubs incorrectly. I said that I
> had to repair that install overwriting the MBR using dd to copy my backup
> of the MBR over what Yast/grub module had broken.
>
> I did not have to repair the menu, that was correct.
>
> If I knew how to
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The Wednesday 2006-11-29 at 02:32 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
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> > And... you grub halts when loading suse, you get to the grub menu, no? There
> > you can choose XP and it should not have the same problem - I hope.
>
> No. I don't get to the gru
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 16:32, Basil Chupin wrote:
> I have XP installed and I then installed 10.1 - and everything was
> working fine until a few days ago when suddenly on startup I got the
> grub> Error #18 message and the only way I can now boot into Suse is
> using the installation DVD and
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Basil Chupin wrote:
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> No. I don't get to the grub menu. If I did I wouldn't be too worried (well :-)
> ) because I would be able to at least boot into Windows but I cannot because
> the grub menu does not come up.
I do not know if this will assist you or not, but I
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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I also have a problem when booting my test partition, which resides in a
disk bigger than what my bios can handle. But I haven't studied the
problem yet, although I'm starting to think that it is similar to your
problem, or perhaps even the same one. I wonder.
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The Tuesday 2006-11-28 at 10:02 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Because last time I let Yast touch grub, when I updated to 10.1, my system
> > would not boot. I had to overwrite the MBR from a backup using 'dd'. Now,
> > when I boot, it says the mess
On 2006/11/28 15:39 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:
> The Tuesday 2006-11-28 at 08:37 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Not sure how you figured it has a mistake and not be able to tell what
>> it is. Mine's considerably simpler:
> Because last time I let Yast touch grub, when I updated to
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The Tuesday 2006-11-28 at 08:37 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Not sure how you figured it has a mistake and not be able to tell what
> it is. Mine's considerably simpler:
Because last time I let Yast touch grub, when I updated to 10.1, my system
woul
On 2006/11/28 14:20 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:
> The documentation for grub-install is incomplete, at least in 10.1. There
> is only the man page
Try this: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
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On 2006/11/28 14:20 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:
> Thus, I have an "/etc/grub.conf" file which I can not understand, and I
> think it has a mistake:
> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd3,1)/grub/stage1 d (hd0)
> (hd3,1)/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd3,1)/grub/menu.lst
> root (hd1,1)
>
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The Tuesday 2006-11-28 at 07:30 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> I did a FTP install from the beta2 mirror state IIRC. Shortly after I
> did some partition rearranging, moving the factory from hda21 to hda10.
> After editing the appropriate files and runn
On 2006/11/28 21:07 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin apparently typed:
I did a FTP install from the beta2 mirror state IIRC. Shortly after I
did some partition rearranging, moving the factory from hda21 to hda10.
After editing the appropriate files and running grub-install, it would
not boot when hda10 sel
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The Tuesday 2006-11-28 at 21:02 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
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> Well, I ran mkinitrd (with specifying the latest kernel by its full number)
> and created a new initrd to match which was slightly larger than the 'old' one
> and this showed that the 'o
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On Sunday 26 November 2006 07:09, Basil Chupin wrote:
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Thanks to you, Joe and to Darryl for your assistance and I ask for some
time to digest all that has been suggested because I am finding it just
a tad hard going trying to get it all into perspective. I am
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Monday 2006-11-27 at 01:09 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
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For example, after booting using the 10.1 Installation DVD uname -a shows that
the kernel is 2.6.16.13-4 but the kernel now actually in place is
2.6.16.21-0.25 and,
On Sunday 26 November 2006 07:09, Basil Chupin wrote:
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> > mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-4-default -i initrd-2.6.18.2-4-default
> > (your new initd-2.6.18.2-4 image should now be present)
> >
> > and/or for the xen image
> > mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-4-xen -i initrd-2.
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The Monday 2006-11-27 at 01:09 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
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> For example, after booting using the 10.1 Installation DVD uname -a shows that
> the kernel is 2.6.16.13-4 but the kernel now actually in place is
> 2.6.16.21-0.25 and, of course, initrd
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The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 20:47 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
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On Saturday 25 November 2006 21:33, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
It would be basically
grub, then root (hd0,8), then setup (hd0), which should find everything
and install it, the
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The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 14:01 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > Check that file, perhaps it is broken somehow. Usually, "/boot/initrd" is a
> > symlink, so check the link and the destination. Also, you can try to expand
> > it on a temporary dir, it i
> >>> The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 20:47 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Suddenly I cannot boot into 10.1 with GRUB coming up with, "Error 18"
> as soon as it starts to execute on bootup.
>
> Does anyone know what this error means and how to get grub working
> correctly again?
>
On 2006-11-25 09:11, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ie.
>> grub> root (hdx,x)
>
> This is OK.
>
That should be the location of /boot, not the root system (/). These are
of course the same location if you do not have a separate boot partition.
>> grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdx
>
> This is OK.
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> It would be basically
> grub, then root (hd0,8), then setup (hd0), which should find everything
> and install it, the quit to leave grub, exit to leave the chroot, then
> shutdown -r now to reboot and check. HTH.
>
One more idea, since at least once it appeared you had
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>> grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,8) (hd0,8)
>> Error 21 Selected disk does not exist
>>
> I believe the second one should only be the disk, i.e. (hd0)
I just checked my /etc/grub.conf, and looks basically the same as yours
abov
Basil Chupin wrote:
> grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,8) (hd0,8)
> Error 21 Selected disk does not exist
I believe the second one should only be the disk, i.e. (hd0)
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The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 02:11 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
grub>initrd /initrd
This comes up with an error, "Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory"
which is a bit strange as I have 1.5GB of RAM and even right at the mo
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The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 02:11 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
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> > grub>initrd /initrd
>
> This comes up with an error, "Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory"
> which is a bit strange as I have 1.5GB of RAM and even right at the moment I
> h
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The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 23:03 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
info grub, Troubleshooting, Stage2 errors:
| 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
| This error is returned when a read is attempted at a line
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On Saturday 25 November 2006 05:03, Basil Chupin wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 20:47 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
Suddenly I cannot boot into 10.1 with GRUB coming up with, "Error 18" as
soon as it st
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The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 23:03 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > info grub, Troubleshooting, Stage2 errors:
> >
> > | 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
> > | This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear bloc
On Saturday 25 November 2006 05:03, Basil Chupin wrote:
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> > The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 20:47 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >> Suddenly I cannot boot into 10.1 with GRUB coming up with, "Error 18" as
> >> soon as it start
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 20:47 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
Suddenly I cannot boot into 10.1 with GRUB coming up with, "Error 18" as soon
as it starts to execute on bootup.
Does anyone know what this error means and how to get
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The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 20:47 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Suddenly I cannot boot into 10.1 with GRUB coming up with, "Error 18" as soon
> as it starts to execute on bootup.
>
> Does anyone know what this error means and how to get grub working c
Suddenly I cannot boot into 10.1 with GRUB coming up with, "Error 18" as
soon as it starts to execute on bootup.
Does anyone know what this error means and how to get grub working
correctly again?
I suppose I could recreate grub (through Yast2) but I don't want to do
this in case I do more d
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