[ltp] GRUB Geom Error

[Jesper Schaumburg-Müller]

fre, 2004-06-04 kl. 23:05 skrev Jesper Schaumburg-Müller:
> Hi.
> 
> I think that GRUB and LILO are alternatives as bootloader. You have to
> choose either to use GRUB or to use GRUB.
eh .. to use GRUB or to use LILO
> I use GRUB on my R50 Debian installation.
> The GRUB behavior is determined by /boot/grub/menu.lst (appended to the
> mail).
> I don't know if you can use it. You will of course have to edit it
> according to your configuration.
> Regards Jesper
> 
> fre, 2004-06-04 kl. 22:25 skrev Sanne N:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am trying Liniux for the first time, Suse 9.1 personal on my T40 237319G . 
> > I installed from the CD using default options (except for changing the 
> > keyboard layout). I never touched the IBM hidden partition.
> > After the install, when trying to boot, the system hangs with 'GRUB Geom 
> > Error'. I tried restoring to factory settings from the Acces IBM menu. It 
> > seems to work, but when booting it gives the same result.
> > I also tried installing Suse with LILO instead. It fails with:
> > 
> > Error ocurred while installing  LILO
> > Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
> > Added Linux *
> > Fatal: Image name, label or alias contains a blank character: 'windows 1'
> > 
> > and then continues to boot with the same result as previously. So I tried 
> > modifying the lilo.conf file during setup. In the lines that goes:
> > 
> > other = /dev/hda1
> > ### Don't change this comment -YaST2 identifier:
> > Original name: windows 1###
> >   label = windows_1
> > 
> > other = /dev/hda2
> > ###Don't change this comment -YaST2 identifier:
> > Original name: windows 2###
> > label = windows_2
> > 
> > I changed 'windows 1' and 'windows_1' to simply 'windows1'. I did nothing to 
> > the windows 2 block.
> > Now it fails with:
> > 
> > Error Ocurred while installing LILO
> > Added Linux *
> > Added windows1
> > Added windows_2
> > Added Failsafe
> > Fatal: open /boot/memtest.bin: No such file or directory
> > 
> > and gives the GRUB error again on boot. Does anyone know what this is about? 
> > Does it look like a problem with the BIOS or the GRUB/LILO conf?
> > Any help or suggestion will be much appreciated, as I clearly don't have any 
> > idea what I am doing...
> > Sanne
> > 
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Jesper Schaumburg-Müller <schaumburg@johansen.tdcadsl.dk>