[ale] SuSE woes... GRUB/No Root Partition/Can't mount RAID array

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Mon Feb 7 17:14:01 EST 2005


Ryan Williams wrote:
> Background:
> I am running SuSE 9.1 on a dual boot system with XP Home.
> Partitions are as follows between two 120GB drives:
> /dev/md0 125.0GB MD Raid
> /dev/hda 111.7GB WD1200JB-00EVA0
> /dev/hda1 48.8GB HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 62.9GB Extended
> /dev/hda5  2.0GB Linux swap
> /dev/hda6 25.6GB Linux native
> /dev/hda7 35.1GB Linux RAID
> /dev/hdb 111.7GB WD1200JB-00EVA0
> /dev/hdb1 89.8GB Linux RAID
> /dev/hdb2 21.9GB Win95 FAT32 LBA
> 
> Last night after moving the computer's location, SuSE locked up on load. 

I would try to reinstall grub one more time via the rescue disk.  If 
that doesn't work, I would boot to rescue, then go to a console and 
manual verify that the /boot/grub/menu.lst file is correct, then run 
grub-install.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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