I have had to reinstall SuSE 11.2. After its successful completion it got into a strange situation: the boot loader identified a boot record on the hard drive and displayed the appropriate message on the screen - but then nothing happened. When I restarted the system with the live CD and chose “boot from hard drive” it got to the normal boot menu without difficulty. I have no idea why the second method succeeds while the first fails.
Thanks - I have now realized what the problem was. There was still a boot loader on my other hard drive and the system picked on that one first, ignoring the drive I installed on. I have now disconnected that other drive (it had problems anyway) and reinstalled SuSE on the newer drive. Now everything is back to normal.
