[lug] error loading operating system

[Chuck Morrison]

er, I meant to say install <grub> to the mbr or first partition.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Chuck Morrison <chuck.morrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> On that same line of thought, did your opensuse install to the mbr or
> the first partition ? My guess is it needs to be on the mbr.
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Jeff Schroeder <jeff at zingstudios.com> wrote:
>> John:
>>
>>> I just installed the latest openSuse on my desktop and when I reboot
>>> it gives me "Error loading operating system"  after the "Verifying
>>> DMI Pool Data ......."
>>
>> IIRC, that message is from the Windows bootloader.  It's looking for
>> your old instance of XP and can't find it, so it dies.
>>
>> Perhaps in your installation, the bootloader didn't get updated properly
>> with GRUB?  I'm not a SuSE guy so I don't know much about the
>> installation, but I wonder if there's a way you could boot in rescue
>> mode and just install the bootloader, without redoing the entire
>> installation process.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Jeff
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