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Posted: Nov. 06 2006,04:29 QUOTE
Er.. was hdb2 mounted?  What's the output of `mount`?

Or maybe your hard drive isn't supported by grub.. you might have to use some extra force switches or lilo.
Did you try changing the drive ordering for boot in your BIOS to see if grub works?  No harm in trying.  Plus this is probably the easiest solution.

Also, you can edit your posts to avoid double, triple posting.
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Posted: Nov. 06 2006,16:24 QUOTE
Switched Bios
result: "grub loading stage 1.5.....
error 22".

mount:
/dev/root on / type ext2(rw)
/dev/shm on /cdrom type tmpfs (ro)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
/ramdisk on /ram/disk type tmpfs (rw,size=249536k)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666).
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Posted: Nov. 06 2006,16:31 QUOTE
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22 : "Must load Multiboot kernel before modules"

This error is returned if the module load command is used before loading a Multiboot kernel. It only makes sense in this case anyway, as GRUB has no idea how to communicate the presence of location of such modules to a non-Multiboot-aware kernel.

Not sure what this means, but I'm guessing since you switched the boot order, your bios mightve also switched the listing order (hda vs hdb).  Try changing around menu.lst - manual edit the order numbers or try using map.


You could try mounting hdb2 using the mountool or mount /mnt/hdb2 before running it again
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Posted: Nov. 08 2006,15:16 QUOTE
Had trouble with Win2k so I dumped it. Now have SUSE 10.1 on my main hd. hda1=swap and hda2+hda3=linux.

Still have the empty second hd=hdb1.
Will I be able to install dsl frugal on it?
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Posted: Nov. 08 2006,16:55 QUOTE
Well, if when you dumped Win2k you could have used frugal to start with DSL, but instead you chose Suse. So, still have pretty much the same situation. Now, depending on what bootloader Suse uses and how comfortable you are with editing it to specify boot from hdb. Your issue is understanding bootloader configurations for accessing non-primary disks. Perhaps, Suse, being a very large distro, has other tools for modifying its bootloader?
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