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| Joe Z... |
 Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:22 pm |
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I installed 11.0 on my ThinkPad T60 and it worked fine.
Installed another disrtro and it wiped out 11.0 grub in the
MBR. Now I can't boot 11.0.
Tried to install 11.0 grub in the MBR thus:
"# grub
Quote: root (hd0,11)
setup (hd0)
quit
#"
This works with every other distro I ever used except suse.
"grub> root (hd0,11)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
Error 2: Bad file or directory type
grub>"
stage1 is in /boot/grub
Can I use the SuSE 11 DVD as a rescue system to boot 11.0?
In the old suse installation, there was a choice to boot an installed
system, is that still available?
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| Eef Hartman... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:05 am |
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Joe Z <jozien at (no spam) comcast.net> wrote:
Use the id of the partition the "/boot" dir is IN, i.e.
grub> setup (hd0,11)
if /boot is also in your "root" partition.
When the system isn't running ON that root grub doesn't
know which "/boot" to use, the one of the RUNNING system or
the one you're writing the MBR _for_.
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| Günther Schwarz... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:33 am |
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Eef Hartman wrote:
Quote: Joe Z <jozien at (no spam) comcast.net> wrote:
grub> setup (hd0)
Use the id of the partition the "/boot" dir is IN, i.e.
grub> setup (hd0,11)
if /boot is also in your "root" partition.
Thinkpads also have a "hidden" partition where they store recovery data.
That might mess up the partition counting.
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| Joe Z... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:43 pm |
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Joe Z wrote:
Quote: I installed 11.0 on my ThinkPad T60 and it worked fine.
Installed another disrtro and it wiped out 11.0 grub in the
MBR. Now I can't boot 11.0.
Tried to install 11.0 grub in the MBR thus:
"# grub
root (hd0,11)
setup (hd0)
quit
#"
This works with every other distro I ever used except suse.
"grub> root (hd0,11)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
Error 2: Bad file or directory type
grub>"
stage1 is in /boot/grub
Can I use the SuSE 11 DVD as a rescue system to boot 11.0?
In the old suse installation, there was a choice to boot an installed
system, is that still available?
jozien
Got this tip from in alt.linux.suse:
"If anything fails, give SuperGrubDisk a chance"
www.supergrubdisk.org
It worked fine, I booted suse 11.0 and was able
to install grub in the MBR.
jozien |
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