upgrade suse 9.0 to 10.0 and grub
 

hello, who can Help me ?
I start the installation and I say upgrade.
The installaion disk work.
At the end, the system inform that the second diisk is rquierd bur it will create
the first boot environment. (with grub etc)
After reboot, the bootloader shows nothing and starts windows XP.
With the rescue system I look at ......../menu.lst and it look not so fine.
I tried to repair it, but there is nothing to see during the bootprocedure
I checked /etc/grub.conf there I find something like this
....
installl ---stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 .... etc

I try to reset grub
wih
grub < /mnt/etc/grub.conf

Bur his dos't help

Do you have any idea?
Paul

Hi Paul7

Strange that an 'upgrade' would do this.

Ed B. Park provides an excellent guide to dual-booting Windows/Linux
at http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux...w2k-HOWTO.html

Follow it carefully to see where the error might be.

Are you sure the XP bootloader is still pointing to grub stage 1 ?
Perhaps grub used to be in /boot and the upgrade put it in /
(or the other way round).

Hope this helps.
Alan

Hallo Alan,
I have 2 disks 1. winnt 2. suselinux
I interupt the realtek bootagent with many spaces.
there I find only profile1.
inside the boot.ini on XP level
I don't find anything about linux or grub or stage2
Paul

Hello,
can I do following?
start the rescue-system
then
mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt
hdb2 is my linux
hdb1 is swap
chroot /mnt
grub-install /dev/hdb or maybe /dev/hda
what is right ?
Can this work?
Thank you
Paul

:p Hello, I think I find a solution !

boot the system from CD1
start the rescue mode

mount the linux-filesystem like I have

for sample
mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt (check fstype and partition):study:

chroot /mnt

check /boot/grub/menu.lst (sure corrupted)

edit it to a useful form - because there are many duplicates inside
after that try
grub-install /dev/hda
if this works type
reboot

if not try
grub
root (hd1,1)
# message about fs if it is correct
setup (hd0)
# grub will check more informations
# after you see succeeded
quit # left grub
# Now you can reboot the system


Maybe you can use the installation disk too
after loading ..
you can make decision between install or update and some lines down you can see
others. if you select this:
install a new bootloader
but part I don't checked, because I run to my next problem. The mouse doesn't work any more and beautiful high-res too
Paul

I made an upgrade to 10.0 beta4 and the same trouble comes again. The ./grub.menu.lst was corrupted and I get
a grub-error. I do the same as write before.
Than the system is coming up.
Paul