Oooops I did it again...

[dr_smit]

Though A newb I tried my hands at triple booting with installing FC 6 on my existing dualk booting system with Suse 10.2 & win XP..
I greated 800 MB swap space and 10 GB of resierf space by deletig a pertion for FC 6..
Midway while installing FC 6, I could not understand which partition to install it in so I rebooted the system by pressing the reset key (I could not find any other way to do it)

on rebooting grub failed to load..
I tried SGD-- Super grub disk-- and could boot into win XP from where I am posting all this..

after SGD-- I boot to screen with boot options --
SUSE 10.2
Window
Suse Fail safe
Xen

but only window option works..
rest say --

Grub
(/hd 7)file not found
Please help

[devils casper]

i think you messed up SuSe. execute 'diskmgmt.msc' at Windows Command Prompt. Disk Management Tool window will pop up. post Partition Structure here.





Casper

[dr_smit]

this is my partion status

[dr_smit]

I gparted and deleted the partion I had created for FC 6 back into FAT 32
Still the same result--
can boot into windows but on booting into SUSE...

Booting 'openSUSE 10.2'
root(hd0,7)
filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
kernel/boot/Vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc0 splash=silent showopts

Error 15=File not found
Press any key to continue..._


what next??
Here,s Disk Management output after GPart...

[devils casper]

kernel/boot/Vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc0 splash=silent showopts

your root partition is /dev/hda8. post the contents of menu.lst file and output of 'fdisk -l' command.







Casper

[dr_smit]

How do I access menu.1st and
can you suggest a way to post the fdisk -l from gparted.. or do I need to write down and then reboot thru win XP to post it by typing?

[dr_smit]

Disk /dev/hdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/tracks, 9729 cylinders
Units=cylinders of 16065^512=8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks id System
/dev/hdc1 ^ 1 2433 19543041 c W95 FAT32(LBA)
/dev/hdc2 2434 9729 58605120 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5 2434 4866 19543041 b W95FAT32
/dev/hdc6 7300 7401 819283+ 82 Linux swap/Solaris
/dev/hdc7 7402 8332 7478226 83 linux
/dev/hdc8 8333 9729 11221371 83 linux
/dev/hdc9 4867 7299 19543041 b W95 FAT32

Partition entries are not in disk order

[devils casper]

SuSe has given device name 'hdc' to your harddisk. edit menu.lst file and replace root=/dev/hdc0 to root=/dev/hdc8.
you can do this using GParted CD. mount /dev/hdc8 partition and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst file.






Casper

[dr_smit]

1. I gparted then in the terminal got
   root@gparted~#
   but could not mount /dev/hdc8..
   as it could not be located..

2. On booting it says
Booting 'openSUSE 10.2'
root(hd0,7)
filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
kernel/boot/Vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc8 splash=silent showopts

Error 15=File not found
Press any key to continue..._

3. I tried grub>command but could not find /boot/vmlinuz OR /vmlinuz OR menu.1st

4. I tried grub> kernel (hd0,7)/vmliz root=/dev/hda8 vga=791
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0xe9z45]
what ever that means??

all the time the result was Error 15: File not found

have I lost GRUB? Do I need to reinstall it ... if so how???

Please help, I have been without linux for 1 day..

[devils casper]

i think problem is in menu.lst file. i wonder how it has changed and root is set to /dev/hdc0.

try this... boot up from SuSe Installation CD/DVD and select 'Installation' option. in next screen, select 'upgrade'. dont select any new package. just click next next and next. Installer will install GRUB again.






Casper