[ltp] GRUB Geom Error

[Aaron Mulder]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Sanne N wrote:
> Error Ocurred while installing LILO
> Added Linux *
> Added windows1
> Added windows_2
> Added Failsafe
> Fatal: open /boot/memtest.bin: No such file or directory

	SuSE adds a "memtest" boot target by default to run memtest86.  If 
you remove that chunk from your lilo.conf, then you shouldn't get the 
/boot/memtest.bin error any more.  It looks like it's probably after the 
Failsafe chunk.

	As far as the geom errors, could it be that it's trying to boot to 
a partition that starts after the 1024'th cylinder or something?  If so, 
you can solve it by separating the /boot or Windows system drives into 
small chunks under the 1024 line.

	Also, I don't think SuSE overwrites the MBR by default during the 
install, which might be contributing to these problems.  Hopefully if you 
successfully install lilo (or grub-install /dev/hda or whatever) that will 
take care of it.

Aaron