Grub trying, but not correctly

I have a Dell L400 laptop with no floppy or cd-rom, very primitive, I am dual booting win 2000 prof and suse 10.1. I installed both programs on a Desktop computer and then took my hardrive and placed into laptop. When I try to boot into Linux, Grub starts, lets me make a choice of Suse or Win, begins booting process and then I get this:

Loading reiserfs
resume device dev/hda1 not found (ignoring)
waiting for device /dev/hda5 to appear.........not found __ exiting to /bin/sh
$
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both booted fine on original desktop,

boot/grub/stage1
returned
hd0,4 0x83

I'm sure it is some simple issue that I'm just to novice to figure out.

Thanks for your help

hi dmcfreedom !

Welcome to the LinuxForums.

BIOS of your Lappy is assigning different name to Harddisk. post the output of 'fdisk -l' command.





Casper

I have the /bin/sh and the grub areas I can get into. when I try the fdisk -l at either place it does not recognize command. Sorry to be so much a newbie. If I can't get Suse to go any further, how do I get to command line?

I aslo have L400 with same problem figured out a few thing you can't install on a different computer unless it has same hardware config. I did do using dell Cseries and Ubuntu and just recently using a live slax distro.
If still need help email me.

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Originally Posted by dmcfreedom

I have the /bin/sh and the grub areas I can get into. when I try the fdisk -l at either place it does not recognize command. Sorry to be so much a newbie. If I can't get Suse to go any further, how do I get to command line?

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execute this at grub> prompt

Code:

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find /boot/grub/stage1

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post output here.

Have better One , did this last night . If the you have the hardware , downloaded Kubuntu 7 beta {brand new} popped it in my desktop , disconnected my IDE harddrive {just to be safe} , put my L400 harddrive into a USB 2 portable drive case plugged it in to desktop , ran Kubuntu installed to HD via USB worked no problem Put drive back in to Dell L400 turned on and it works , woohoo ! this is the first I have ever seen read or done that is a way to install an OS to an L400 without the 10NRN cdrom cable and rom .
have a good one

grub > find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,4)

OK?

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grub > find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,4)

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now execute this at grub> prompt

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root (hd0,4)
setup (hd0)
quit

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I enter
grub> root (hd0,4)
filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes
running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 18 sectors are embedded.
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succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2
/boot/grub/menu.1st"... succeeded
Done

grub>

Forgot to mention. Still doing the same thing it originally did. thanks