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Hello. I recently upgraded to 11.1 from suse 10.3, and have had grup error 15 messages. I can see the grub menu if I boot from the suse dvd, and both suse and windows load fine. But not without the dvd. Tried reinstalling grub a bunch of times, without sucess. So i reinstalled the os from scratch, and fromatted my root and /boot partitions. After the install I still get the same grub error 15 message. here are the contents of my menu.lst below. I have 2 hard drives, one with just an /archive partition, and my main drive that has multiple partitions. The /boot partition is called sda8.
Thank you
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Dec 26 01:11:25 UTC 2008
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,7)/message
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title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.7-9
root (hd1,7)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500320AS_9QM01QLB-part6 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500320AS_9QM01QLB-part5 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default
if this was incorrect, wouldn't linux and windows fail to load at all, because what was written in menu.lst would be incorrect too? I can still get in with the dvd, the grub menu works. It's just if I try booting without the dvd, I get the grub error 15.
Hi there billymayday, here is what I found using your procedure
find /vmlinuz shows the following, (hd1,7)
find /boot shows "error"
find /vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default shows (hd1,7)
It's curious that find /boot shows an error. On installation I specified that as to where to install grub, and indeed I do see grub files on that directory. What do you think?
GRUB should be installed to the MBR, whichever drive is master. If it is the WIN95 drive, then it should go there. Knowing windows, sda is probably the boot drive, although I see you have an ntfs partition on sdb. Put GRUB in the MBR, always. The config is in /boot/grub/menu.lst, but the program should be placed on the MBR. (Sorry, I am repeating myself.)
Hello, I only have 1 swap partition, hard drive sda is my /archive drive . When I installed suse 11.1 it seemed to flip around the hard drive labels for some reason, sdb became sda, and vice versa.
I thought the proper procedure is to install grub on a /boot partition, I had it like this in the past and it worked fine.
I'm sure you can install grub on a /boot partition. This is common and should work. I see files in that partition for grub, so I want to find out why it's not working with error 15. I want to know where the issue is so I have an understanding. I know if I reinstall grub on the mbr it won't work. I've tried it before I reinstalled 11.1. The problem is not that I installed grub on /boot, the trouble is elsewhere.
The menu works but Only accessable through "boot from hard disk" in the suse dvd, the menu is fine, but only loads with the dvd. Without the dvd I get grub error 15
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