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01-20-2010, 04:56 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: Crystal Beach, Texas
Distribution: Suse for mail +
Posts: 5,100
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Which directory is grub located in on hda11? It should be in the directory called /boot.
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01-20-2010, 07:26 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2010
Location: Oregon Coast
Distribution: Kanotix, Debian, Mint, Memphis,PCLinuxOS,Mandriva
Posts: 19
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That is correct...
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01-22-2010, 03:37 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: Crystal Beach, Texas
Distribution: Suse for mail +
Posts: 5,100
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The only advice I can give is to use these commands from Suse terminal and hit the enter key after each line.
mkdir /mnt/hda11 (enter)
mount /dev/hdall /mnt/hda11 (enter)
mkdir /mnt/hda11/boot/ (enter)
mkdir /mnt/hda11/boot/grub (enter)
cp /usr/lib/grub/* /mnt/hda11/boot/grub (enter)
grub (enter)
root (hd0,10) (enter)
setup (hd0,10) (enter)
quit (enter)
The only reason I am using Suse is I know the directory grub is in. This will install stage1
Last edited by Larry Webb; 01-22-2010 at 03:40 PM.
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01-23-2010, 11:08 PM
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#19
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2010
Location: Oregon Coast
Distribution: Kanotix, Debian, Mint, Memphis,PCLinuxOS,Mandriva
Posts: 19
Original Poster
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a problem with BIOS
Wellllll....
I did the above, things looked promising and the I got
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
The BIOS is old because the machine is old, it's a DELL A06 BIOS.
My Fedora install is version 6 and I plan to do a new install of Fedora 12. Through Fedora I may be able to do a firmware upgrade. At this point could firmware be my problem?
Thanks again Larry for sticking with me...
Thoughts on "Error 18" at this time?
~~mr sneakers
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - Churchill, 1941
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