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can't boot linux after install

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mewannafastpc

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ok i got the problem again.
linux won't boot straight to the harddrive and it requires me to put the installation disc in and then go to manual setup or something like that and boot form an already existing system.
what happened?
 
Sounds like your bootloader installed on the HD isn't working properly. More info on what distribution you are using in addition to the boot manager you are using would be helpful in solving your problem.
 
i'm using SuSE 9.2 with the grub boot loader i think
and is it normal for the system to ask for the system disc every time it starts up?
 
Not normal for it to ask you to insert a disc. Hopefully someone more familiar with Suse could help you.
 
i got three others downloaded fedora core 3, and mandrake 10.1, and gentoo 2004.2
which one?
or do you recommend something else
 
@mewannafastpc: That's very odd. Did you have problems when you were originally running the install? What exactly happens when you boot up without the install disc in your drive? Did you go in and try making any changes to your grub.conf? If nothing else, you could try using YaST to reinstall grub and see if that fixes the problem.

Oh and depending on what you want from your OS; SuSE doesn't suck. People who want something fairly simple to use will generally be happy with SuSE. It's a nice distro, particularly for new users. Though if you're wanting to really learn Linux; you might want to try something else as all the nifty GUI tools that SuSE provides you with tend change around the config files a bit which can be confusing.
 
manzabar: i think i did something with partitioning because i wanted it to use only a small part of the harddrive like 5gigs, but when i tried to create it kept giving me this message about a root partition or something so i just went back and did a default install. but i tried to install fedora core 3 and that one worked fine. so i guess i'll try to reinstall suse now and YaST is something that i go to when SuSE is loaded right?

and i for now i just want to be able to configure my desktop so it looks different. and a good workstation like will not give me error messages every hour or so like windows does when i run multiple programs, and things of that nature. and i'm still not sure what kind other kinds of customization i might do.
 
mewannafastpc said:
manzabar: i think i did something with partitioning because i wanted it to use only a small part of the harddrive like 5gigs, but when i tried to create it kept giving me this message about a root partition or something so i just went back and did a default install. but i tried to install fedora core 3 and that one worked fine. so i guess i'll try to reinstall suse now and YaST is something that i go to when SuSE is loaded right?

and i for now i just want to be able to configure my desktop so it looks different. and a good workstation like will not give me error messages every hour or so like windows does when i run multiple programs, and things of that nature. and i'm still not sure what kind other kinds of customization i might do.
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YaST is SuSE's setup/config tool and let's you do most anything you want to your machine from within a GUI (though it can also be run via the command line). It's where you'd go once SuSE is installed to do most any administration (install new apps, configure services, etc...)

If you're reinstalling SuSE; I'd say either go with the default partitioning scheme or if you really want to do a custom partition setup; then to read carefully the instructions as there's some pretty good info in the help file... At least with 9.0 there was; I didn't feel a need to look at the help file when I wiped my system to put 9.2 on it.

As for configuring your desktop, you can do that with any Linux distro but if you're not familiar with Linux; you'll probably want to stick with one of the "noob" friendly distros. Most people consider FC3, SuSE, Mandrake to be the big 3 of the "noob" friendly ones, though Ubuntu has been gaining popularity lately.

Good luck with your install!
 
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