hey

I have a Suse Linux 9.1 prof. & I just installed new HW:

Motherboard: ASUS, A8V deluxe
CPU: AMD athlon 64-bit 3500+
RAM: 1024MB, Vendor uknown (might be kingston).

I also wanted to rearrange my partitions a little since my old linux partition was only 3 GB.

So I have made the following changes to the HDD (80 GB):
1. Deleted all partitions.
2: Parted the HDD into 3 partitions.
3: Installed Win Xp on drive C: (15 GB)
4: NTFS formatted drive D: (50 GB) & left the third partition untouched
5: Tried installing Suse on the last partition (11GB).
The installation tried booting on the HDD, but came up with the message "GRUB"

Under installation the following partition information was displayed:
Format Partition /dev/hde6 10,0 GB (for / with reiser)
Format Partition /dev/hde5 1,0 GB (for swap)
Set Mount point of /dev/hde1 to /windows/C
Set Mount point of /dev/hde2 to /windows/D

Hde3 & 4 was a SATA drive which I removed just to be sure that it wasnt part of the problem.

I have installed Suse last year with my old HW without any problems.

Hope someone can help me...


Best regards Henry

I feel a little confusion

You say you partitioned one harddrive, which is called hde (which is already strange, since this is supposed to be 3rd primary IDE controller, but this is certainly possible, especially if you have a SATA controller, too). On this drive, you created the partitions hde1, hde2 ,hde5 ,hde6 and I suppose hde3, which is the extended partition. You may say: "No, I didn't create an extended partition", but since Yast names them hde5&6, they are logical partitions.

But now my problem: hde is one physical drive, how can hde3&4 be a SATA drive that you took out?

I guess your grub is as confused as I am. Try to boot from CD and see if this finds your root partition. After that, re-install grub with correct settings. Use fdisk -l to get a list of your drives and partitions. Check if /etc/fstab matches these partitions and if Yast doesn't correct itself automatically, you may need to change the (hdx,z) parameter in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

See http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/0..._overview.html for further details.

Hello again

I am not familiar with the way Linux names its hdd or partitions, but I can see what you mean...

It lists my SATA drive as hdE as well as my ATA drive is listed hdE...
How can that be.... I double checked it.....
I don't under stand why it does'nt see them as different drives...

Now I am confused...

I have now decided to give up the dualboot, and install Win XP on a my old machine with the SATA drive instead..

My ATA drive has been cleaned up, and Suse has been installed succesfully..

I don't feel I have enough background knowledge with Linux to fiddle around with GRUB just yet...


Thanks for you answer....