[SOLVED] Boot Issue

[Kryptic]

I have a weird one so I expect this may take some time to solve. I have installed SUSE 10.3 and when i take out the disk and reboot and believe me i do have all settings in the bios set right. I get an invalid boot disk error but when i put in the SUSE dvd and boot and then go to boot from hard disk there it boots just fine. Yeah I know really weird anyone else know anything about this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

[Manchunian]

I'm wondering if it's got something to do with software repositories. Have you disabled the dvd from the repository list?

[Kryptic]

I never thought of that but yes I removed it a while ago. I am thinking that GRUB is not set up correctly but i have looked into it but did not see anythink that struck me as wrong I will post my FSTAB so maybe someone can see something i'm missing.

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3120827AS_5MS043FG-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3120827AS_5MS043FG-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1200JD-00WD-WCALA1075947-part1 /Storage ext3 user,acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-32HWD-WMAJ91555513-part1 /Games ext3 user,acl,user_xattr 1 2

I hope this gives some clue. Not sure what file will show boot setup.

Thanks for the quick reply.

[Manchunian]

Strange indeed. Can you post your grub menu.lst file so we can take a look at it?

[Kryptic]

Here it is....

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Mar 13 03:40:38 CDT 2008
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,1)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3120827AS_5MS043FG-part2 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sdc2 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Recovery Mode
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3120827AS_5MS043FG-part2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default

Hopefully this will give us the info we need to figure this one out.
As always I thanky you for your efforts.

[yancek]

Go to your opensuse /boot directory and check to see that the files indicated in your menu.lst (vmlinuz and initrd)_ are there and the numbers are correct in the menu.lst. If they are, run "fdisk -l" and post. Also might help to post results of "ls -l" from your /boot/grub directory. When you installed you chose to install Grub to MBR?

[Kryptic]

Actually I installed by default. Let me say that i was....I hate to say it an XP user and when I finally became so frustrated I decided to make SUSE my primary and just get rid of Windows alltogether so i just told the install to use that entire drive and no seperate partition for home just a root and a swap. I did see that grub was trying to install to an mbr then i went in and changed it to root drive and it made no difference. I would like to be able to boot without the DVD someday. Here is what you requested and once again thanks.

chris@Galactica:/boot/grub> ls -l
total 220
-rw------- 1 root root 10 2008-03-12 21:20 default
-rw------- 1 root root 60 2008-03-13 03:40 device.map
-rw------- 1 root root 60 2008-03-13 03:31 device.map.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7576 2007-09-21 16:59 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7424 2007-09-21 16:59 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6664 2007-09-21 16:59 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6656 2007-09-21 16:59 iso9660_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8128 2007-09-21 16:59 jfs_stage1_5
-rw------- 1 root root 781 2008-03-13 03:40 menu.lst
-rw------- 1 root root 781 2008-03-13 03:31 menu.lst.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6844 2007-09-21 16:59 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9160 2007-09-21 16:59 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2007-09-21 16:59 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103162 2008-03-13 03:40 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7004 2007-09-21 16:59 ufs2_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6228 2007-09-21 16:59 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8820 2007-09-21 16:59 xfs_stage1_5
chris@Galactica:/boot/grub>

[Kryptic]

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc21a2a6e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x15e415e3

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 14593 117218241 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc581c581

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc2 263 14593 115113757+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdd: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc93fdc7e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 4865 39078081 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

[scrarfussi]

I am on my phone so can not really give you the exact location it looks like you got several drives am i correct wat you need to do is go into bios can't give you the exact name but there is an option on which drive it checks first for the mbr so your grub might be installed properly but your bios is looking on the wrong drive i had this problem when i tried installing another distro to flash stick

[Kryptic]

That is a very good piece of advice however I have gone into the bios and tried many different boot orders and yes I do have multiple drives but I am aware onto which SUSE is installed. But you gave good advice all the same that would have been the one I recommended at first as well.
Thanks