HELP HELP. boot problem! menu.lst I think

King of Japan · 10-11-2005, 11:14 PM

I posted a question earlier about Dual boot XP/Suse 10 earlier here,

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=371987

That is exactly what I did.

It seemed to work ok until I got into the SUSE Login Screen.
I couldn't login as a user, and I wasn't able to login as root into KDE.
It just kept saying login failed. I've never even seen that login screen, but I may have never did a reboot since I just installed SUSE 10 (which took 3 days)
So I did a console login as root and that worked fine. So I cd'd into boot to restore the menu.lst file. I kept a copy of it and just renamed it back.
When I rebooted, all I get to is the grub command prompt. So then I put CD1 back in and rebooted and selected the repair/rescue installation option, It asked for a recovery password and I just put root and I was able to get to a prompt. However if I cd into the boot directory, it shows it as empty. I can't even see if I named the menu.lst file wrong, which is what I think I may have done. I can cd into some directories and see contents but others I can't.

At this point I had a Great idea, it now remains to be seen, I have a knoppix 3.3 live CD. I thought I could boot via CD and mount the Suse HD.
I thing the filesystem is reiser so I tried,

mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda /mnt/hd to no avail
Next I tried
mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd to no avail
Then tried all the way to hdd1. It's obvious I don't know what I'm doing, I was just guessing. I really think I may have renamed the menu.lst file wrong. Maybe menu.1st or menu.ist I just need to get into the boot directory to look.
But I can't and that's where you, the gentle linuxquestions reader come into play.

I would appreciate any input.

freakyg · 10-12-2005, 12:47 AM

did you try

Code:

/dev/hda1
/dev/hda2
/dev/hda3

etc........??

King of Japan · 10-12-2005, 12:56 AM

No I didn't, I shall try that tomorrow.

So if I do

mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/hd1

I'm on the right track to mount a reiser partition?

King of Japan · 10-12-2005, 10:20 AM

The good news is that the /dev/hda2 was the one.

I was able to use knoppix and rename the menu.lst file correctly.

Bad news, is that I'm back to the place where I can't login at the splash screen, but can if I chose the console login.

But thanks for helping me to get this far. I'll search around to see if this gui login is a known issue.