Installing Suse 11 and getting grub error

[scheric]

Hi I am trying to install Suse 11 on my laptop. It has two harddrives and has vista on one and I'm trying to install Suse on the other. Hoever when I try to install about half way in i get an error that says GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640k lower / 3072k Upper memory)

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grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,1) (hd0,1)

Error 22: No such partition

grub> quit

I get the same error if i take out the other hard drive that has vista on as well. I haven't been able to get anywhere past this to even get onto Suse. Please help if I can work around this

[D-cat]

Your grub got confused on install. If SuSE is indeed on the second drive, stage2 should be in (hd1,0)

First number is the drive (zero based, so the first one is 0, the second one is 1, etc). The second number is the partition, standard dev notation -1 I think (0-3 for primary, 4+ in extended)

I'm afraid I don't know enough about grub to make changes to stage 1 stick, but I found something that seems understandable.

GRUB Boot Multiboot openSUSE Windows (2000, XP, Vista) using the Grub bootloader.

[devils casper]

It looks like GRUB/BIOS compatibility problem.

Unplug Vista HD, plug-in other HD as Primary Master and install SuSe in it.

We will post instructions for dual boot setup after successful SuSe installation.

[scheric]

It looks like GRUB/BIOS compatibility problem.

Unplug Vista HD, plug-in other HD as Primary Master and install SuSe in it.

We will post instructions for dual boot setup after successful SuSe installation.

This did not help. I am still getting the same error

[Jonathan183]

I remember having problems installing grub on openSUSE 11.0 ... openSUSE 10.3 had worked fine, and other Linux distros. I stopped using openSUSE shortly after that (didn't like KDE4). I posted here because I also had problems getting other distro grub to recognise openSUSE 11.0 grub.
I used rescue mode to install grub to the mbr, after that it worked ... is it when the system reboots you get the grub prompt?
what does

find /boot/grub/menu.lst

typed at the grub prompt return?

[scheric]

I don't get the grub prompt at reboot because I haven't gotten that far in the installation for it to reboot. I have only one option in order to stop the propt and that is don't install grub. Of course once I do this and I restart all i get is a flashing dash line and a black screen.

[Jonathan183]

Try running through the install without installing grub then reboot in recovery mode from the CD/DVD and install grub.

[scheric]

Try running through the install without installing grub then reboot in recovery mode from the CD/DVD and install grub.

is that "repair installed system" or "rescue system"? and from there how to I install grub? I apologize but this is really my first experience with Linux

[Jonathan183]

Good question ... I can't remember. I think repair system is probably the option to try first because rescue system drops you at a command line. I don't have openSUSE installed anymore so I can't try the repair system option.

Give the repair system a try and post back if it does not work and you want to try the rescue system ... at login prompt type root and at the password prompt just press enter key.

grub
find /boot/grub/menu.lst

should return something like (hd0,1)
replace (hd0,1) below with what you get for the find command

root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0)
quit

Then you can type reboot ...

[scheric]

when i booted into rescue and typed in grub command, followed by find /boot/grub/menu.lst I got error 15: File not found