Quoting Keith Edmunds <kae@???>:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:22:25 +0000, m.nuttall@??? said:
>
> > Trying other options gives an error of cant find (hd0,6). My root
> > partition is hda7 so why is it mentioning (hd0,6) ?
>
> Grub numbers the partitions from zero, so this is correct. Does /dev/hda7
> still exist? Run a standalone/recovery CD and try:
>
> mkdir /x
> mount /dev/hda7 /x
>
> ...and see if it mounts correctly.
>
> > Tried livedvd suse10.0 yast but wants to write to the cd and sits there
> > stuck at 50% progress.
>
> Sorry, that sentence makes little sense.
>
> > The only thing i can think of is to install the suse10.3 after formating
> > my root partition.
>
> That is highly unlikely to be necessary. Boot a standalone or recovery CD
> and try running 'grub' and then:
>
> grub> root (hd0,<tab>
>
> ...which will tell you what partitions grub recognises.
grub> root (hd0,<tab> gives the 2 ext3 partitions i expected. hd0,5 which is
/home and /root (hd0,6)
thanks
Martin N
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