Hello, please help I am toataly lost. I am sorry if this seems very simple. I have tried to search but am not sure what to search for I am so lost.

I am running a dual boot machine with win 98 and SUSE 10.0. Last night I get home and start up my machine which started normaly at first but then stop at

Booting from CDROM:
Booting from CDROM:
GRUB

this is normal but it then usually jumps to the grub screen with my boot options: SUSE 10.0 WINDOWS FAILSAFE e.t.c Not this time it just stops. I try pressing return, nothing. O.K. I check my BIOS boot sequence. 1, CDROM 2. FLOPPY 3. HARD DRIVE. I try swapping to 1, CDROM 2. HARD DRIVE 3. FLOPPY. It makes no diffrence. The next thing I try is putting my SUSE 10.1 CD1 in and boot I choose boot from hard disk and all I get is

GRUB

at the top of the screen. So I then try putting in a Knoppix bootable CD, this starts fine. I can access both my windows and SUSE partions from here to this implies that the HD is connected o.k. I am clean out of any ideas. I also unplugged things plugged in to my USB ports. The last thing I did when the machine was working was install qemu, but that should not screw with anything to do with booting should it?

I am quite a newbe and any help is good.

You should use the Suse cd to boot the installed Linux. It can be acessed by using the manual installtion -> boot installed Linux.

hi

thanks for telling us you have trouble shooted the best you could with a live cd cos I am going to tell how some extra steps if you mind.

1 boot from the knoppix again

2 click on the icon for the /boot partition .....if not sure click on all of them until you can get to /boot/grub/menu.lst

post the output of that file....you can save it to floppy if you can not write it down

then ....find the / partition and post the output of the file /etc/fstab

3 using my tutorial you may or may not spot a problem with the suse grub file?

4) but while in knoppix click on the shell icon (for the konsole) and re-install grub to mbr so it links to its booting files

su
grub
root (hdX,y) as per tut where is /boot partition in grub speak
setup (hdX) ....could be hd0?
quit
reboot


5....if that fails you still have no change.....4 will only re-embed grub and its link it will not change your menu options so if you spot they are wrong you need to right hand click the correct drive icon and make it read/writeable and use su powers to edit that file while knoppix is loaded.

6 if you feel keen.....look at my trouble shooter and use commands to boot the drive and then write down the correct ones and edit the file once suse as booted?

thankyou very much aus9 I will give it a go tonight! I will let you know if I have succsess.

Thanks aus9. I reinstalled grub as you said and every thing as working now.