I have a dual-boot PC at home, which boots to OpenSUSE and Windows. After a very tiring 7 hour journey, I came home to a GRUB failure. After searching for help all over the web, I found some help here, here, here, here, here and here.

It turns out, that GRUB stage 2 was not being loaded. So here’s what I did.

1. set the root partition

2. run GRUB setup on the MBR.

3. load the os using chainloader.

To set a partition as root, it is required to know the device where the root partition resides. This can be found using the following command

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0,0)
grub>chainloader +1

This got my system back to normal. I’m wondering where I can get some more information about GRUB, I don’t understand GRUB much and would like to change that. Links to tutorials anyone?!

Update: Since there is hardly any audience that read my blog, it’s only fair that I stop asking questions.. So here are some links that I found

[tags]boot problem, GRUB failure, GRUB, GRUB corrupted[/tags]

Trying to get the Sony Ericsson W800i has been by far the most traumatic experience of my life. I tried everything possible, but still was unable to get it recognised on my home PC!

So, finally I decided to resort to the most reliable way to get anything to work with a PC. Do a google search!!!

Found a wonderful link, (on a forum that solved the issue). Here is the fix suggested, (I have organised in to be more of a step-by-step guide.

The following involves tampering with the Windows Registry. Kindly take a BACKUP of your registry using regedit before attempting any changes. Oh yeah.. you are on your own in case you screw up something.

EXPORT ALL THE KEYS MENTIONED BELOW BEFORE DELETING THEM! ALWAYS BEST TO HAVE A BACKUP

• Make sure your phone is NOT connected to your computer.
• Run Regedit.
• Browse to “My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\”
• Delete all key that start with “Vis_0fce&Pid_d028″.
• You should be back to a stage where no w800 is installed on your machine.
• Download the drivers (Approved ones) from SE’s website under Support.
• Run the EXE file and let it install.
• Connect your phone through the USB cable.

Link to the orginal post can be found here.

[tags]SE W800i, Sony Ericsson W800i, mobile phone pc connectivity, tips n tricks[/tags]