Hi All, I tried to post this earlier but I don't know if it went through or not, so forgive me if this double-posts.
In keeping with my trend of publishing my failures with Linux, I have another one to post. Seems I end up learning more by screwing up. If thats the case with everything, I should be the smartest m,an in the world by now! ;-) I purchased a new 160GB hard drive and finally got it installed last night. It is jumpered as a slave with a 20GB drive (Windows 2000) set as master. I finally decided to install Suse 9.0 Pro from the disks Katrina burnt for me (tanx K). All went well for the installation as far as setting my parameters and slecting my packages and stuff and this morning I got to actaully installing it. It had just finished installing the appropriate information from Disk 1 and I would imagine it rebooted (had to go potty), because when Ic ame back the only thing on my screen was the follwoing error: GRUB HARD DISK ERROR I did try to reboot from the CD and tried the "boot from hard disk: selection (same error) and tried the "recsue system", but seeing as I had not set a root password and not sure what to do next I just left powered off the machine. I am away from home this weekend and was just getting ready to leave as I did this, so no time to screw around. I did a little googleing and from what I have seen, the BIOS may not recognize the geometry on the hard disk and GRUB takes it's information from there to set up the boot loading. The suggestions I have come across include booting off a win98 boot disk (person had a dual bot with 98) and entering "fdisk /mbr" at the command prompt. I have been cautioned that this can pooch your system and want to be slow and deliberate as I deal with this problem. Seeing as it is a fresh install I don't mind blowing away the install (on hdb) and doing it again if I need to, but I want to maintain the integrity of the existing windows hard disk (hda) seeinga s that is my current working environment. I am just wondering if rebooting from a win98 disk is the smart thing to to do or should I just try reinstalling suse again from the CD. If I remember my bootloader parameters correctly I may have put GRUB on hda. Not SUre if that is the right thing to do or not? ANy suggestions are welcome as are offers to come over and fix the problem for me <hehehe ;-)>are greatly appreciated!!! Cameron _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
