grub error16
 

When I boot my computer, all goes well until it attempts to load grub 1.5 when the error 16 msg comes up. If I try to reboot the same result. If I go away for 15-20 minutes I get a successful boot. I am running amd64 3500, 160g hard drive mounted in 'databridge' removable rack using suse 10.3. The history of the drive is that it was used as the master drive in conjunction with another racked hd to dual boot windows xp. It all fell over when I tried vmware to boot windows from within linux. I have dispensed with the windows disk and the suse disk is now stand alone (re-installed)

I really do not want to guess what the problem is if you can shut it down and restart and it will boot. The first thing I would try would be to use your Suse disk and do a repair or recovery. I would think this should get you fixed up.

Setting up vmware may have changed something in the filesystem structure that was necessary fro vmware vitrualization, but is significantly different from a stand-alone system.

You could try booting a liveCD and running fsck on your partitions. Beyond that, if you have a backup that pre-dates the vmware installation, you could restore that to see if you can return the system to a sane state.

grub error16
 

Thanks for the suggestions. When I attempted to do a repair from the suse disk, I ended up with a red screen that said 'failed to load'.


When I had vmware loaded on the disk, the OS was ubuntu. After various attempts to resurrect the disk, I retrieved the information via a live install disk, and then loaded suse. In this process, I deleted all partitions and had suse re-partition the disk in the install process. As a result I do not have a backup copy of the disk prior to running vmware. What still puzzles me is that the disk loads after some period of 'warm up'

You mentioned a old hd or prior used hd. Have you run any tools to check the hd?

Turned out to be a hardware problem - nothing to do with the OS or the HDD, but the cable between the motherboard and the harddisk had developed a problem. Replaced the cable and now live happily ever after!

Glad to see a problem solved even if I did not help.