Re: [SLE] grub refuses to grub
From: Willy Reinhardt (Willy.Reinhardt_at_sefanet.ch)
Date: 11/14/04
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:40:14 +0100
Le Dimanche 14 Novembre 2004 04:37, Don W. Jenkins a écrit :
I got a similar problem I just change grup to Lilo and now it work fine
Note before I had Suse 9.0 with Grub and with Suse 9,2 it doesn't work
Willy
> I managed to solve a lingering problem I've had with my freezing display
> after narrowing it pretty much to a hardware problem in the mother
> board. I had a new ASUS P4S800 sitting around that I wasn't using, so I
> swapped it in today, so I have that and a Celeron 2.4 gig, 512mb of
> memory, Nvidia FX 5200 video card, Proxim Orinoco wifi card, a 30 gig HD
> for Windows and 60 gig HD for Linux, a regular CDROM and a CDRW. I was
> pleased to find that everything booted, got detected and worked the
> first time, and there appears to be no problem with the display now. It
> was freezing in everything, including Windows, gradually worsening. But
> what I can't do any more is get Grub to boot the machine. No matter
> which distro I try to install and have install Grub, when I try the
> reboot, I get an "error 25" whatever that is, and the boot process just
> stops. For some reason Grub isn't able to pass off to the second HD
> where the actual boot sector is, and I gather, where the actual Grub
> menu is to select Windows. To complicate things, I cannot get Linux to
> rewrite my MBR, because I have Win2000 Server installed, which uses
> NTFS, which does not allow write permission from Linux. And I don't
> recall, or never knew how to rewrite the MBR from fdisk on a Windows
> boot disk. I've even tried to get Win 2000 to reinstall, but it is
> doing funky things at the point where it is supposed to reboot and
> continue the install. It just keeps going around again if the CD is in
> the ROM, and if it is out, Grub is still in the way. It hasn't
> rewritten the MBR yet. If I try the Linux boot floppy, it hangs at the
> point where it would hand off to the boot sector on the second HD, also.
>
> Does this ring any bells? I'm probably going to have to wipe the
> Windows partition and do a clean install, and maybe the same for the
> Linux side. Or since I have a Win XP laptop, I may just make this a
> Linux machine and forget the dual boot.
>
> Thanks,
> Don J.
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