Hi,
I have a 3 year old Suse server which was recently upgraded to Suse 10.3. Not long ago, it started to partially crash every day. The IP masquerading worked so I could get to the internet from my windoz box, but Apache and Samba would die. If I hit the reset button, it would come back to life for a fraction of a day. As I was backing up the drive, it crashed and then would get an IO error when I tried to login, even as ROOT.

I built a new Suse 11 server and it seems to work (mostly). But, as soon as I attach the old, PATA drive, grub complains that it can't boot. I suspect that the new, PATA drive is being seen by the BIOS before the SATA boot drive and changing its HD boot order.

It's a Reiserfs file system so my windoz box would probably be unable to read it. Is there any way to extract the data from it?

Here's my grub.conf
vulcan:/etc/sysconfig # cat /etc/grub.conf
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,1) (hd0,1)
quit

Do I dare edit this and change "hd0" "hd1"? Will I lose everything if I can't boot/login again?

Thank you,
BrianP

Why not boot using a live CD, then use utilities like foremost or testdisk to recover the data to another HDD. Somehow, I think you may have problems doing this if the drive is in really bad shape, but try anyway. Try not to use the old drive much, the more you use it the closer to complete death it will get.