Ok, I just got a brand new 40 gig Hard Drive and stuck in a 500mhz PII. The drive came to me formatted. Now I have installed Suse Linux 9.1 Personal, installation went great no errors or anything. I used the ACPI disabled install to do this. Now, the computer rebooted it's self and went to Grub. This is apparently nothing like DOS what so ever. Alright so I am at Grub......Now what??



P.S. Like the Windows user said to the Linux user Quote ''What the hell are u doing over there'' Unquote. I NEED HELP....I am a Linux Newbie.

What does it look like Grub ...
Grub loading stage 1.5 ?

Alright, it is Grub version 0.94. I tried some random commands that I saw lying around in the forums, like a splash loader command that I saw, but so far nothing has worked. All the instructions that I read say that I should be playing music by now, so I think this is God's way of getting back at me for something...LoL. I appreciate everyone's help here. I am newbie, but I am wanting to learn.

Suse is just screwing up. It must not like my computer, so I am downloading Mandrake 10.0, hopefully I will do better with it.

If you use the SuSE boot CD you can boot to an installed partition (buried in the install process) and that will load the GUI and SuSE, then you can change the bootloader configuration. Also if you do use mandrake why not use LILO instead of GRUB.

Could always try the ftp install if you have cable or dsl. That is unless you bought personal which then it would make sense to use it. Even in Suse I think you may be able to use Lilo as the bootloader before you install(could be wrong never used Suse much). Then again Mandrake is great for starting out to.