Good idea! Maybe we should make a sticky thread from that type of information.

Um. Newbie problem here. Actually 2 of them. 1) How do we do that (make a sticky thread)? and 2) Other than fdisk -l and print out your grub menu.lst, I am pretty clueless as to what to add...

Your lead, guru!

1. We can't make a thread sticky (only moderators can). But we can post a well formulated thread and kindly ask them to make it sticky (see the 'Report this post to a moderator' link).

2. There are some more interesting file to add, but these two explain most of the problems.

So, like this?

Having problems booting from one of your partitions? Please provide the following information when describing your problem so that we can help you more efficiently:

1) The results of typing "fdisk -l" (that is a lower case "L" at the end) in Linux. Do this by either:
a) booting to level 3 (type a 3 in the grub menu options line), logging in as root and typing after the "#" prompt; or
b) booting to level 5 (if you can; no special action required from grub), log in as a normal user, open the Terminal Program (the thing with the shell in the lower left corner), at the "#" prompt type:
# su
Password: <your root password here>
# fdisk -l
This command will provide us with your hard drive structure.
2) The contents of your grub menu.lst file. That file is usually found at /boot/grub/menu.lst. Do this by:
a) while booted to level 3 and logged in as the root, type:
# cd /boot/grub
# less menu.lst
Type :q to exit; or
b) while booted to level 5, on the menu go to System | File Manager | File Manager - Super User Mode. Type in your root password. In the top box where it says "file:/root" put "file:/boot/grub" and hit enter. You should see menu.lst listed. Click on it once to display it.

Comments?

Sorry for the late reply.

Sounds good to me! The question is, if this is considered important enought to make it sticky. Maybe we should collect some more advice in one thread to have some kind of 'Guidelines to the Novell/SUSE section of LQ' or 'SUSE beginners FAQ'.

I am not sure if this is something people want. Maybe this needs to be discussed in a more general thread than this (so others will also participate). Maybe you would like to start such a discussion?

I'm game.

Off to start a new thread...