Le Friday 19 October 2007 14:27:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED], vous avez écrit : > Hi > > I have a BIG problem. > > I have a brand new Dell with 2 sata drive. > I installed Opensuse 10.3 on /dev/sdb while WinXp was installed > (factory) on dev/sda/ > Everything went smoothly and I spent 2 days to install and recover > data from my old PC > (dead). > > However, after 2 days, S.M.A.R.T indicated that dev/sda was dying. > (the drive with Windows and... grub on the MBR). > Dell promptly send a new disk, and I replaced the faulty one. > > This drive has nothing on it. > > I thought that, booting on the SuSe 10.3 dvd and opening a root > console to reinstall grub > would do the trick. I did that once, when I upgraded a dual boot > machine from win 2000 to > win XP and had to restore the MBR. > > So i booted from the dvd, choosed installation,>more option, >boot > existing system > > The installer found my / partition (dev/sdb1) but stop before allowing > GUI. It asked for a root password. I gave it and had a prompt. > > then i typed : > grub > find /boot/grub/stage1 /// found (hd1,0) which is correct (dev /sdb1) > root (hd1,0) > setup (hd0) > quit > > I rebooted and nothing !!! > > What did i missed ? > Should i install grub ? ie grub-install hd0 ? I thought the previous > command would do it ? > Should I install windoz on dev/sda ? > Should I install opensuse 10.3 on dev/sda and during installation > choose /dev/sdb3 as home directory ? > Should I install Opensuse 10.3 on dev/sda and then move all the data > from /dev/sdb ? > > the two last seems to be great ideas, however, it means that I will > have to start again > all the installation !! How safe is the second one ? > > > I really need to boot the installed system very quickly !!! > > Thank you for your help. > > Matthias > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
I found and solved the problem. To anyone who this could happen, and who is under too much stress to properly think (like I was), here is the solution: After booting the installed system from /dev/sdb1, the system stopped, asked for a root prompt. This is because the NEW SATA drive do not has the same disk ID has the previous one and that no partitions are present, thus my fstab was WRONG. Under the rescue console, I just deleted the lines corresponding to the previous partitions on the faulty SATA drive (was /dev/sda), rebooted and VOILA !! I should have thought at that before !!!! I now created new ext3 partitions on the new /dev/sda drive and i will change my fstab. Sorry for the inconvenience (and for the unsigned previous messages, I was using the webmail which I never use) Good Week End to all of you PS: thank you fazer for your reply. Matthias -- __________________________________________________________ Matthias Titeux, PhD Département de génétique des maladies cutanées et allergiques dans des modèles animaux et chez l'homme. INSERM U563 - CPTP Pavillon Lefebvre, 5ème étage CHU Purpan BP3028 31024 Toulouse cedex 03 __________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
