Christopher Dick wrote: > I recently installed SuSE 10.2 on a couple of machines > using SATA drives and they each seem to be exhibiting > a similar problem. > Which are??? > They won't boot unless I choose "Boot installed > system" from the CD. > So you are booting from the cd/dvd? Are you booting from the mbr of your HDs? Is your BIOS pointing to the HD to boot from? > I did a check, and right from the get-go the two > copies of Stage2 are not the same. MD5 comes up with > a different hash for each, though I was under the > impression that they were supposed to be the same. > I believe they are specific for the system so that would be normal unless these are exactly the same hardware, etc., in both. > GRUB definitely loads, but just stops cold after the > Stage 1.5. AFTER? stage 1.5 is the stage it loads to read the file system to read the rest of its info. This means it has to looking in the right place. > On the machine that also has Windows, the > WinXP install comes up just fine. But Linux is dead. > This makes no sense to me. Does it start from grub? If so, this has to be after stage 2. Then the problem has to be in either your menu.lst or possibly your device.map. We would need more specific info to troubleshoot your problem, hopefully info that is not conflicting with itself. ;-)
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
