[Gllug] Error 23 booting

Norman Duncan normand at teleline.es
Thu Feb 13 13:40:55 UTC 2003



Bruce Richardson wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:31:26AM +0100, Norman wrote:
> >
> > After trying to tinker with my system, following some of the advice from
> > here, last night.(I don`t know what I did) .... it has stopped
> completely.
> >
> > 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]
> >
> >      Error 23: Error while parsing number
>

> Do you know how to use the Grub menus or cli interface to
> rescue this?  No offence, but I think that whatever combination of external
> advice and
> personal inspiration you followed has left your machine in a mess that
> is slightly beyond your current skill levels.  You should probably stop
> fiddling with it and get someone to have a look at it and fix the
> booting problem (make sure they show you how they do that).
>

No offence. I agree completely. I have no idea what I am doing. I wasn`t in
grub.
I am trying to get a local expert to sort it.
Thanks.
Norm
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