Quoting Peter Salisbury <peterthevicar@???>:
> 2008/10/13 trotter <m.nuttall@???>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have built a new PC and I am trying to get suse 10.3 installed.
> >
> > The install process goes fine but on reboot I find grub has not been
> > changed to "suse grub" ie the green splash and its boot options.
> >
> > I still see the syllable os installed grub which is the basic white
> > writing on blue back ground. No entries have changed on syllable
> > grub.
> >
> > I tried the suse 10.2 and 10.3 repair options but they cant find
> > a valid linux partition! It did find the linux swap partition however.
> >
> > I am downloading sue 11.0 dvd but its going to take a few days to
> > get the 4.29Gb dvd iso.
> >
> > The install picks up my old suse 10.3 update install so why doesnt
> > the repair boot manager?
> > Is there a problem with the 10.3 installer that messes something up?
> >
> > Advice and suggestions please
> >
> > Martin N
> >
>
> Debian rather than Suse, but I had trouble with an upgrade involving
> grub where I had the old grub installed in the MBR so it was picking
> up my old menu.lst configuration instead of the new grub.cfg.
Are you saying that in the new grub menu.lst is replaced with grub.cfg?
If so thats going to be messy booting syllable which requires version 0.97 of
grub as grub 2 will not support the closed source AFS file system.
> I also
> had trouble with the naming of drives changing which caused great
> confusion. Could either of those be your problem?
I not sure what you mean there.
Are you saying that the suse installer might be writing grub to a different
hard drive?
thanks for your time
Martin N
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