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[Peter Cannon]

On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:29, mad-malc at tiscali.co.uk wrote:

> I must say perhaps i should just piss off as every one takes the hump
> around here, either that or stop using rhetorical statements.

Na don't do that! suddenly you've become interesting.

> As to your non booting SUSE 9.2 Pro, I have wiped out SUSE pro's GRUB MBR
> many times and I cured everytime by booting from the SUSE install disc(s)
> and choosing system repair.

OK, so I installed/Upgraded to 9.3 last night everything went fine except the 
thing wont boot normally.

1. I get a minimal bash grub (if I'm lucky, sometimes I have to hit the 
restart button a few times as I get *Grubstage2readerror* and it wont do 
anything else) if I put;

grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot

Then XP boots OK

2. If I put DVD1 in it wont "Boot from hard disk" but if I say install, select 
my keyboard, I'm presented with some options I.e. Repair, Install Blah blah 
blah and Boot, if I select "Boot" the thing fires up fine there is a fatal 
error, it cant find some stupid module, but it doesn't affect anything as far 
as I can see.

3. Following the 2. scenario if I select repair this seemed to clear up a 
supposed problem with reading /dev/hdd (I don't think thats connected with 
the boot problem) when it gets to the "Check Boot Loader" bit it says there 
is a problem and to "Contact the User" very helpful. I have tried all the 
options for changing this part of the set up it pretends to sort it out gets 
as far as "Saving changes" and sits at 50% done and moves no further so it 
never gets to the "Install Boot Loader" bit.

I tried fdisk mbr/ but I don't think it had any effect I tried upgrading Grub 
but still no effect I was thinking of un-installing grub then re-installing 
but if that don't work I might lose the only way I have of accessing XP 
(apart from the XP installation disc of course).

> So should I just unsubscribe from this mailing list or just watch and
> wonder like a child...
> All Ive learnt so far is I get people on this lists back up, thanks for
> being so hospitable.

Don't be such a wuss with a name like Mad Malc I would have thought you were 
made of stronger stuff.

Todays a new day.


-- 
 
Regards,
Peter Cannon.
peter at cannon-linux.co.uk
Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2

"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"
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