Re: [SLE] must boot from suse 10 DVD

On 1/31/06, BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 00:08, Ed Harrison wrote:
> > ** Reply to message from "Gracia M. Littauer" <gracia@xxxxxxxxxx> on
> > Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:16:28 -0500
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Why not use the DVD to boot into this installation and rerun the
> > boot-loader installation in YAST?
> >
> > Ed Harrison, Linux User # 199533
> > SuSE10.0, Kernel 2.6.15
> > PolarBar Mailer 1.26
> ========
>
> Thanks Ed, but reread the original email, it's already been done. Next
> guess? It's a mystery worth solving to be sure! ;o)
>
> Lee
>

Hi,
can you post the result of fdisk -l /dev/hdx where "hdx" is the
approriate drive in your system? Also, where do you install grub - in
the MBR or in the boot partition? Post a copy of your /boot/menu.lst
file as well.

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