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OpenSuse 10.3 CD and DVD with fault installer? Reinstalling the bootloader!

Posted by Matteo Mattei / 25th June 2008

Today I’ve tested the new OpenSuse 10.3 with KDE both in CD and DVD version on an old Packard Bell Desk Pro. After a long waiting during installation, at automatic reboot it will be prompt a classical black screen with the message “Operative System not present“. After a vanished search on the net looking for some informations, I thought that the installer was failed to install the bootloader and so I’ve just tried to do it manually. Here there are all the steps I follow:

  • Boot OpenSuse installation CD/DVD and enter in Recovery mode
  • Run grub ed enter in its own shell
  • From here run these commands: 
    grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

    Where:
    hd0,1 => sda2
    hd0 => sda

  • Restart the system and magically the installation will go on.