Re: [SLE] must boot from suse 10 DVD

On Monday 30 January 2006 10:33 pm, BandiPat wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 16:24, S Glasoe wrote:
> > On Monday 30 January 2006 2:16 pm, Gracia M. Littauer wrote:
> > >
> > > when I tried to reboot I get a little groan from my HD & a black
> > > screen with <GRUB loading Stage2.....> on the upper left side and
> > > no HD activity.
> >
> > Sounds like the hard drive is dying. Get the Ultimate Boot CD
> > (ultimatebootcd.com) and run the drive tests from the manufacturer of
> > your hard drive. Well worth the download for those diagnostics alone
> > plus it has tons of other software for inspecting systems.
> >
> > That test may tell you whether the drive is dying or if it has other
> > problems.
> >
> > > I can boot from the SuSE 10 DVD by going to <other> in the option
> > > page & choosing <from installed system>. I tried <repair>, but it
> > > can't find any mounted partitions! this even though it boots from
> > > them. Yast shows them.
> > >
> > > We reinstalled the kernel, rewrote mbr, checked the bios, checked
> > > logs, checked /etc/fstab, checked my sanity!
> > >
> > > Any ideas, short of a new clean install & a 1500+ watt UPS!!!
> >
> > Clean install to a spare drive while this one gets RMA'd under
> > warranty?
> >
> > > --
> > > Gracia
> >
> > Stan
>
> =========
> Not the hard drive Stan. Remember it runs fine once you get past a
> certain point with the DVD. Once booted, no problems, no errors, all
> seems to work as before. It just won't boot from Grub on the hard
> drive. It also says it can't find any suitable Linux partitions when
> she goes into the repair mode, yet there they are, same as before.
> Really odd problem.
>
> Lee

Well... Since the HDD won't boot on its own and the MBR was rewritten and it
seems to run fine otherwise:

Make sure the IDE cable is well connected. Re-seat it at both the mainboard
and HDD itself. Do you have another known good 80-pin IDE cable you could
test this drive and system with?

Make sure the the drive is at the end of the IDE cable and is either
jumpered as Master/Primary or Cable Select and is on the Primary IDE
controller port.

Disconnect any other IDE device except this one HDD from the mainboard and
see what happens.

Do you have a spare HDD to try in this system and does it behave correctly?

Does this drive behave correctly in another system?

Stan

--
Check the headers for your unsubscription address
For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@xxxxxxxx
Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@xxxxxxxx

Relevant Pages