GRUB2 : stalled - do not know shat is wrong. Need help

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Hello out there: I have been using openSUSE for a long time - and for the first time ever I messed up -here I attempted to update my 64 bit PC - the PC has 2 hard drives /dev/sda ( for windows 7 - 1000 megs ) and /dev/sdb ( for openSUSE 13.2 - 500 megs )
for linux I have the drive paririioned like so - /dev/sdb1 - 20 megs - swap partition - I am using the file system = EXT4 ( I tried file system = btrfs as well) I get exacctly the same error mesage for both
-/dev/sdb2 - 60 megs - for /
-/dev/sdb3 - 400 megs for /home

I have installed different versions of openSUSE - starting around version 8 or so - this is for a 64 bit pc and a 32 bit PC as well - I have not changed anything configuarion wise ( I hope ) so I was surprised that this time I did not get it right

I used BitTorrent to download - that works just great - I used “k3b” to build my .iso boot DVD - here is the message I get
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“GRUB loading.”
“Welcome to GRUB2”
'error: no such device: 62930398-8db4-48ie-aa21-941459ed9b1d."
“Entering Rescuemode…”
“grub rescue>”

And then the PC locks up - will not accept any commands - at least nothing that I try to input is accepted

Regards and thank you
any assistance will be appreciated

Leland Muri

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A little confused usually you don’t change the files system on an update. Perhaps did you do a new install to the previous root?

Is this an EFI BIOS or a legacy BIOS? Installed to boot MBR or EFI

Can you boot to a live Linux and show us fdisk -l

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You did not override old bootloader. May be your BIOS is set to boot from one disk but you install new bootloader on another disk. Or old bootloader was installed in MBR but you install new bootloader in partition.

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I’m confused too
But I suspect all may not be lost, may not be…

But you need to add some clarity as requested.

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I found a solution to this problem and would like to close this thread

I solved this probelm by installing a new hard dirve

Everything seems to be OK now

Thanks to all theknowledgable people who assisted me

Regards Leland Muri