The good news is...
...you're well on your way to becoming a Linux expert. ;-)
As for your OpenSUSE installation problem, I'm guessing that a keystroke
was in a queue while OpenSUSE was setting up its RAMDISK, and
unbeknownst to you, the control code for the Enter key was sent to
answer a prompt asking if you wanted to install or not. All guesswork
based on the fact that Live CDs can be quite slow in loading before they
run. If it was a bug, I would expect lots of reports on it to show up
in a Google search.
Best of luck as you keep on trudging under the covers of Linux.
John
Dos-Man 64 wrote:
I fixed it. Knoppix comes with the FreeDos tools. I used FDISK /MBR
1
(or something along those lines) to move the master boot record off my
2nd drive and back on to the first one.
My second drive got formatted in the fray, but there isn't much on
there
but old stuff. It was worth it to get rid of that annoying startup
option.
On Feb 23, 3:41 pm, Moonchild <[email protected]> wrote:
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On 23-02-2010 21:16, Dos-Man 64 wrote:
hmmmm..
I'm not seeing any solutions. Most of them are xp-based and deal with
getting the grub loading screen back. I don't want that back; that
was my whole reason for doing this was to get rid of that. Opensuse
seems slow and buggy.
I'm thinking I can reinstall 98 over top of itself to repair the MBR,
or just go for broke and format both drives?
You might want to try grabbing the little "bootpart" tool and repair the MBR
that way. The problem is simply that grub tries to load something from a
partition that no longer exists, and errors. Get rid of grub and your problem
is solved.
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
using the command BOOTPART WIN95 BOOT:C:
(Or WINNT if you want the Win NT boot sector) Note: you have to run this from
a true dos prompt, not a shell prompt in windows.
HTH
MC
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