Reinstall Suse Bootloader into MBR

To change your framebuffer to something like 1280x800 append "vga=0x368" to your kerneloptions and remove vga=0x317
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On my girlfriends computer I found that changing the framebuffer mode to widescreen caused the bootsplash screen to turn into text - presumably because there is no widescreen picture for it to display??

Is there an easy way to fix this??

Spuzzdawg

Hello

been awhile but suse been working fine I do have problem though...... I put in vista and went here printed out what Harryc said to do to put grub back in. Now I get grub to load BUT I get windows 1 and windows 2 ?????? no suse :blink: :blink: I only have one windows windows1 is vista have'nt tried windows2 yet anybody else run into this

Hello

been awhile but suse been working fine I do have problem though...... I put in vista and went here printed out what Harryc said to do to put grub back in. Now I get grub to load BUT I get windows 1 and windows 2 ?????? no suse :blink: :blink: I only have one windows windows1 is vista have'nt tried windows2 yet anybody else run into this
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Load the SuSE install CD#1 in the CDROM drive boot up the machine. Choose installation, a couple of screens in there should be an 'other' box. Choose 'boot installed system' from that. Once SuSE is booted up, open up a console, run the following commands as su, and post the results here;

fdisk -l

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

cat /boot/grub/device.map

fdisk - 1

greg@linux-njsk:~> su
Password:
linux-njsk:/home/greg # fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
linux-njsk:/home/greg #
linux-njsk:/home/greg # fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors

ok heres 2nd
linux-njsk:/home/greg # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat May 5 10:44:07 CDT 2007
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,5)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.2

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1###
title windows 1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2###
title windows 2
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd1,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: 2.6.18.2-34-default###
title 2.6.18.2-34-default
initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default
linux-njsk:/home/greg #

and last one
linux-njsk:/home/greg # cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd1) /dev/hdb
(hd0) /dev/hda
linux-njsk:/home/greg #

fdisk - 1

greg@linux-njsk:~> su
Password:
linux-njsk:/home/greg # fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
linux-njsk:/home/greg #
linux-njsk:/home/greg # fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
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fdisk -l (lower case L)

linux-njsk:/home/greg # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 30402 244196866+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 3243 26049366 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 6487 9729 26049397+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb3 3244 6486 26049397+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 3244 3437 1558273+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb6 3438 4685 10024528+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb7 4686 6486 14466501 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
linux-njsk:/home/greg #


sorry about that

well did kernel update and installed all new patches was behind on those. thought this would be a good time to do it...... Well guess what won't boot at all now..... that d*** nvidia again... knew soon as I did'nt see the nvidia screen come up I was in trouble.... whats that sax 2 thing going to do search now and try that.............. :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

Ok, once you figure that out post your menu.lst again because as soon as you did a kernel update it changed that as well. It is always a bad idea to introduce change into a problem when you are trying to troubleshoot it. This rule pertains to many things well beyond Linux.

you are right and the sad thing is I KNEW THAT... My fault tried to do sax2 but didnt work bad and can only blame self