Guests came to my house.We all spend time with them.That is why I can't find time to open my inbox.yesterday.I will email my menu list soon.
with kind regards U.Sankar On 12/22/08, Harish CM <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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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