I dont think the CD has anything to do with suse not booting. It is probably because grub does not see where suse is installed. now send me the file menu.lst of both linuxes which can be found in /boot/grub, possibly in partition 1 and 7 of your hard drive. best/harish
2008/12/22 sankar pillai <[email protected]> > Thank you for your detailed answer.I may try my best to sort out things. > The following is the story of my laptop. > I purchased this laptop from ELCOT people,the tamilnadu goverment > Organization which supplies laptops to students and others for a price less > than that of the market price.The machines are preloaded with two linuxes.No > windows.But they provided virtual box for the benefit of users for the > loading of windows by themselves.The user sent cheque to the company.The > company delivered the laptop at the doorstep of the customer by courier.For > about a month or two,we study things(linux operations)by our own.Elcot then > orgainsed a one day training programme.Some of us attended the program.Some > did not.Many of the users did not want to use linux and they switched to > windows.But I persisted with linux.The instructor at the fag end of the > lecture wanted to show how to update the programs with CD.Unfortunately he > demonstrated this in my laptop.The CD got struck in my laptop.My laptop > shows failed operation message with the CD.Hitting power on switch a couple > of times,the struck up CD was taken off. > > On returning Home,I find that susee not loading but Ubuntu loading is ok > grub screen also comes. > I met the instructor.He assured me the installing of susee without > affecting Ubuntu. > But he did things that muddled up such a way in my laptop. > > That is why I got your attention from this google groups.I get useful > lessons from you. > > I hope I learn a lot of things. > > Many of the laptop users who purchased linux machines converted theirs into > windows machine.They are not at all prepared to use the new environment.How > can one popularise linux? > > Hope I can rectify the problem of my laptop in a week. > > Thank you for sparing your time inspite of your absence for the whole day > in your town > > Regards > U.Sankar > > > On 12/21/08, Harish CM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sorry I was not in town the whole day yesterday, hence the delay. me hurt? >> no not at all; yeah I did think you were from trivandum; so I thought being >> a Physics man - you can very well be on your own with some direct help from >> me. >> >> From the fdisk list I find that you have 4 linux partitions 2 swap >> partitions and a fat32 partition. >> >> would like to what all is in each partition! >> >> Of course I know from the earlier grub report that you do have 2 bootable >> linuxes one in partion 1 and the other if I remember right in partition 7. >> >> what is there i the rest of the partitions. Please back up any precious >> data of yours on the laptop. why do you have 2 linux swaps? >> >> for example the following is the fdisk -l output of my laptop: >> /dev/sda1 * 1 3293 26449858+ 7 HPFS/NTFS >> /dev/sda2 3293 3424 1048576 82 Linux swap / >> Solaris >> /dev/sda3 3424 5336 15362644+ a5 FreeBSD >> /dev/sda4 5337 19457 113426932+ 5 Extended >> /dev/sda5 5337 16220 87425698+ 83 Linux >> /dev/sda6 16221 17904 13526698+ 83 Linux >> /dev/sda7 * 17905 19457 12474441 83 Linux >> My laptop originally came with 1 single partion with preloaded vista. i do >> not use vista, so I shrunk the vista patition to the best I can to about 26 >> GB. the free space was then partitioned to 1 linux swap, 1 freeBSD root. all >> the 3 above are primary partitions. >> partition 4 is an extended envelope to hold logical partitions 5, 6 and 7. >> partition 5 is the largest and is my common home partition for both the >> linuxes I have right now. >> Partition 6 contain a debian/ubuntu hibrid called Poseidon which I >> generally use for my day to day use. >> on 7 I have another linux which I change as and when a new distro is >> released, a sort of experimental workbench >> you can see I have only one swap and home which i use commonly for both >> the linuxes. >> >> I use the grub installed in the more permanent linux (Poseidon) to which I >> add the booting info of all other bootable operating systems on my machine. >> >> About yours: It is all but muddled up and all problems seem to be because >> of this muddle you have created. >> >> best/harish >> >> >> >> 2008/12/20 sankar pillai <[email protected]> >> >>> Dear Sir, >>> I got the following output for the command you sugessted me. >>> >>> >>> Disk /dev/sda:320.0 GB, 32007293233376 bytes >>> >>> 255 heads ,63 sectors/track,38913 cylinders >>> >>> Units =Cylinders of 16065*512 =8225280 bytes >>> >>> >>> >>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >>> >>> /dev/sda1 1 13 104391 83 >>> Linux >>> >>> /dev/sda2 4 275 2104515 82 Linux swap >>> / Solaris >>> >>> /dev/sda3 276 13406 105474757+ 83 Linux >>> >>> /dev/sda4 26242 38913 101787840 f w95 Ext'd(LBA) >>> >>> /dev/sda5 26242 26764 4200966 82 Linux swap / >>> Solaris >>> >>> /dev/sda6 26765 31985 41937651 c W95 FAT32(LBA) >>> >>> /dev/sda7 31986 35632 29294496 83 Linux >>> >>> /dev/sda8 35633 38913 26354601 83 Linux >>> >>> >>> >>> With kind regards, >>> >>> U.Sankar >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 12/19/08, sankar pillai <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Sir, >>>> Please forgive me if my previous mail has hurt you.I am now >>>> on paper valuation work of the Manonmaniam Sundaranar >>>> University,Tirunelveli.I cannot come to see at once.Probably you might >>>> thougt that I may based in Trivandrum itself. I have to plan my visit to >>>> Trivandrum.I cannot immediately come there.Moreover you must be free to >>>> spend 1/2 a day with me.Your convenient time is also important.I shall not >>>> embarass you in any way.I am very much lucky to receive suggestions from >>>> you.I feel that it is great that you spend some time on seeing my email and >>>> answer them.Surely,you can help me.I can learn a lot from you.So I will >>>> come >>>> to see you in the near future.In the mean time,I will send mails as per >>>> your >>>> suggestions. >>>> >>>> With kind regards, >>>> U.Sankar >>>> >>>> >>>> On 12/19/08, Harish CM <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I was wondering why you were not prepared to come to me though I am >>>>> prepared to help. I think a 1/2 day sitting can really help you to take >>>>> off. >>>>> I am no big expert, but a scientist and of course a linux enthusiast. >>>>> Actually for a technology oriented person like you I can help you with >>>>> lots >>>>> of suggestions and software which you could use for personal as well as >>>>> academic purposes. >>>>> >>>>> I am in a quandary that my instructions may or may not be sufficient to >>>>> safely help you out. I think both the linuxes you have installed may be >>>>> intact, but the grub in the mbr may need some editing to make both linuxes >>>>> to properly boot. >>>>> >>>>> Pls send me the output of "fdisk -l" run as root user. >>>>> >>>>> best/harish >>>>> >>>>> 2008/12/18 sankar pillai <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>>> Dear Harish, >>>>>> Thank you very much for your keen interest to help >>>>>> me.I live in the south part of tamilnadu.It is not possible for me to >>>>>> come >>>>>> your place of work or residence since we are far apart.Fortunately I >>>>>> noted >>>>>> down something before the sytem got crashed.I feel the problem is god >>>>>> sent.Then only I can learn by the hard way.If you learn things >>>>>> easily,that >>>>>> is not worth. >>>>>> If you provide your suggestions by email,I can try my best. >>>>>> >>>>>> I noted down some instructions when my laptop was working fine.I may >>>>>> try them and ask your suggestions. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards >>>>>> U.Sankar >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". 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