[ltp] GRUB Geom Error

[Dan Borello]

Looks like you are having issues with lilo.conf.  Trim it down to the
bare bones.  Are you sure there is nothing pointing to memtest in it?   

Try to just make it as simple as possible (KISS).




On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 15:25, Sanne N wrote:
> 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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