[SLE] Post install boot stops at grub prompt

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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:23:26 -0400
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com

I'm a newbie looking for some installation assistance.

I've got an machine that previously had Windows 2000 on it. It's
an AMD K6 processor (500 Mhz), 256M ram, with a 9.5 Gb disk, circa 1999.

I downloaded the iso image from SuSe and burned a CD. I booted from
the CD and YaST2 came up to do the install. I let it repartition the
hard drive however it chose - it created a 500 Mb swap partition
(/dev/hda1) and
a 9 Gb partition for / (/dev/hda2)
YaST then went through and installed everything (a few "Packages reported
errors", I assume
this is sort of normal)
It then asked to reboot the system.
I said OK and let it reboot from the hard drive. It comes
up with the

GNU GRUB v0.94 etc..
[ Minimal BASH like line editing is supported ... etc.

GRUB>

and stops there.

GRUB can't seem to see the filesystem on the disk. When I run geometry,
GRUB replies
with

Partition 0, Filesystem type unknown
Partition 1,

Running kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz gives..
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition.

trying to set root (hd0,1) (should be /, right?) gives
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by bios.

trying to set root (hd0,0) gives
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82

I haven't been able to find anything in the GRUB documentation that helps.
Why can't GRUB seem to read my hard drive?

Thanks in advance,
Steve

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