hi all,

i recently purchased a 64GB SSD drive and isntalled suse 11.1 on the drive. when i reboot the laptop it will say error loading operating system. i can install windows xp on the drive fine and it works great. i have also tried a previous version of suse linux 10.3 and i get the same results, error loading operating system. does anybody have any pointers?

thanks

anthony

What OS do you have on the laptop internal drive?
How are you trying to boot Opensuse on the SSD drive? Did you install Grub to the mbr of that drive and set it to first boot priority?
Are you booting from the internal drive? with what bootloader? Do you have an entry in the internal bootloader to boot Opensuse on the SSD?

i dont have grub installed on the drive. im running open suse 11.1 32bit edition. i am booting from an internal drive. how would install grub during the install process?

thanks

I'm not sure I understand. You are trying to install Opensuse 11.1 on the external, do you have it on the internal drive of your laptop? or some other operating system on the laptomp? What is it? If you have a Linux OS on the laptop, it should be easy to modify Grub files.

You answered most questions but not which bootloader you are using to boot the internal drive. Do you have xp installed on the laptop? Do you use its bootloader to boot it.

If you don't have Grub installed you will need to boot from the xp bootloader and that requires a few steps. Not sure what you want to do so will wait for your response before making any suggestions.

im not using an external drive at all. im using an internal ssd drive like a flash drive called solid state disk its a newer technology.

i was told by a friend of mine that grub is installed by default.

i dont have windows xp on the drive now, but i did at isntall it just to test it out which works fine, but then i installed suse linux 11.1 and deleted windows on the drive.

i have not tried any other linux distro on the drive yet but i may try it and see what happens.

how do i modify the grub bootloader???

thanks

If you installed Opensuse on the SSD and it is the only OS on the system there should not be a problem booting it. Is it the only drive you have on the laptop? If you have another drive in the laptop, you need to have the SSD set first boot priority in the BIOS. Default is usually to install Grub to the mbr of the first drive in BIOS so if there is another drive in the laptop, that is most likely where Grub put its stage1 file, the mbr of that drive.

I'm not clear about whether you have another drive besides the SSD?

i have only 1 drive in the laptop

where can i see grub installed on the drive? so that i can make changes

it is set to first boot priority.

thanks

In your post # 3 above, you state:

That statement would indicate to me that you do NOT have Grub installed on your SSD and you have another internal drive?? The statement above seems to contradict your statement (below) in your last post??

Use the Opensuse install CD, let it load, open a terminal/konsole and issue the command "fisk -l" (no quotes and lower case letter L). Must be done as root, enter "su" or "su -i" before typing the command. Post the output here. This is partition information which is needed.

Grub is in the /boot directory. It should have been installed to the mbr by default but doesn't seem that it was. I'm still not sure how many drives you have as you seem to have given conflicting information.