Hi All,

In keeping up with my trend of publishing my failures with Linux (seem to learn more 
that way), I have another one to add to the collecttion.

I recently purchased and finally got installed a 160GB hard drive.  It is set up as 
slave with a seperate 20GB Windows drive.  This is to allow me to install a fresh 
Linux install and then migrate from the existing windows drive.  I went to the task of 
installing Suse 9.0 Pro last night and this morning and when it finished with the 
first disk and rebooted the following error came up:

GRUB HARD DISK ERROR

I did try and reboot and boot from hard disk from the Suse disk and tried to do a 
recovery, but cancelled it as I was heading out of town and couldn't deal with it at 
that moment.  From what I have been able to determine from googling and such, I may 
have made a booboo with my bootloader parameters.  From what I can remember from going 
through the install process, I may have boot GRUB on my windows disk (hda).  The 
suggestions I have seen include getting a windows boot disk (this was a person running 
98), booting into a dos prompt and entering fdisk /mbr.  I am aware that this can 
pooch your system, if you are not careful.

Seeing this is a completely virgin install, I am just wondering if thsi is the way to 
go or should I just go to installation from the Suse disk and fix the booloader from 
there.  Or does any one have any other suggestions that they can think of.

I do have Partition Magic 7.0 at my disposal and extra machines to make disks and such 
so I am not worried about that.  However, I don't want to screw up the windows disk 
(20GB drive) as it has all my info on there.

Any suggestions are welcome...as are offers to come over and fix it for me...LOL!!! ;-)

Cameron


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