I have recently completed a fresh install of SuSE 8.2 Pro. On boot I receive this error message:


Kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=nil splash=silent splash=silent
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x120452]

Error 23: Error while parsing number

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I checked the device map and that seems ok. The system will boot off of the CD just not off the hard disk. Any ideas?

I did a google and got: http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html. Although here the error is number 15. Have a look.

yeah, I have seen that type of thing before...

the latest GRUB manual is at:

http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/gru...oc.html#TOC101

I am wondering if perhaps my menu.lst file is misconfig'd? Everything I use is kept on one partition (/dev/hda2). My only other partition is /dev/hda1 which is the linux swap file. Any comments based on that?

So...

I noticed when I attempted to convert to LILO that I was getting a display definition error. Someone had mentioned to me early on that vga=nil from my title kernel wasn't quite right. Sure enough...it wasn't.

Basically, because I use a "partially" supported video card, YaST did not configure my menu.lst correctly at installation. Because it was "Unclassified Graphics Card" the setup simply inserted nil into the display definition.

Upon doing some googling I discovered the following chart...

Color depth | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
256 (8bit) | 769 771 773 775
32000 (15bit) | 784 787 790 793
65000 (16bit) | 785 788 791 794
16.7 Mill.(24bit) | 786 789 792 795

I simply amended my menu.lst to read vga=791 (my desired resolution) in the title kernel. Then I reconfigured Sax2 to read the same settings...rebooted...and it was cash money from there.

good stuff osiris!