[Gllug] Error 23 booting

[Andrew Halliwell]

> This morning on trying to boot up (Suse 8.1) I get:
> 
>      kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 hdc=ide-scsi vga=nil
>      max_scsi_luns=1
>        [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=1078c4]
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^

That is either a corrupted decimal number or... It's untagged hex.
Hex needs to be identified by prepending 0x to it (as in the previous
number)

>      Error 23: Error while parsing number
 
> I can get into failsafe mode and can run sax2 (I have a feeling that it
> is something in there)

Looks like it's grub that's the problem.

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