Can't boot to SUSE 10

Mirag3 · 01-20-2006, 04:51 PM

I've been playing around with suse, and theres an option in the shutdown sequence where you can choose restart>one of your operating systems. This is nice, because what it does is apparently skips the bootloader and goes directly into the operating system you chose. Unfortunetely, as I was loading windows, my system crashed. I booted up the computer, and instead of loading grub like normal, it went immediately to windows. This wouldnt be a problem, but I needed to get back into linux, so I rebooted the system to get into grub and into linux. However, the flag that signals grub to skip choosing and boot a specific OS apparently didnt get erased, so I cant get into linux because I cant choose the option. I have done a cold restart and everything, and it doesnt seem to work, even when I used the install disk to "repair"/reinstall GRUB. Heres my menu.lst in case you need it:

Code:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Jan 16 22:58:58 UTC 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message

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title SUSE LINUX 10.0
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 selinux=0    resume=/dev/hda4  splash=silent showopts
    initrd /boot/initrd

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title Windows
    chainloader (hd0,0)+1

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title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
    initrd /boot/initrd

If anyone can just get me into linux once using the install dvd, i think using the shutdown will reset the flag and ill be good.

aus9 · 01-20-2006, 06:30 PM

thanks for your menu but a question.....according to menu you should see the menu b4 your eyes for 8 seconds to make a selection different from the default of suse.

do you see this?

if not i suspect that grub is no longer in your mbr and you just use a linux live cd to redo grub into mbr

commands are
su
grub
root (hd0,2)
setup (hd0)
quit
.....then reboot to test

read my tut to help with your understanding......and there is no flag in menu for windows to start so I suspect grub not your bootloader anymore

Mirag3 · 01-20-2006, 07:01 PM

hey sorry i forgot to mention, I indeed do still have GRUB installed and set up, as I boot up the grub screen does flash for the smallest second, but it moves by immediately to boot windows. Ill try using your commands inside the Rescue CD option, though

Mirag3 · 01-20-2006, 07:14 PM

Damn man, right on the money, I didn't use the root (hd0,2) command, but I did do grub>setup (hd0) - it reset grub or something: everything works perfectly. GRUB is fully set up with all my boot options and SUSE is completely intact. Nice job, I owe you one.