Installing SuSE 7.2 on an IBM ThinkCenter S50 (2): grub

Last time, we were left with a functioning but nongraphical SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional that needed its installation CD-ROM to be able to boot. Despite all my documentation, I didn’t find a list of Lilo errors that explained more than the “L” and the subsequent series of repeated “07”s that appeared the entirety of what the boot process delivered. But I could still boot using the intallation CD. That way, logged in as root, from my command line, I typed yast2 and found myself in an ncurses screen. Choosing Package Installation focused my cursor on a search field, in which I typed: “grub”. It was there. F10 asked me to insert CD #1 and a moment later I had a second bootloader on my machine. Grub legacy reads from /boot/grub/menu.lst, but to create that, I had to find out what grub would call my /dev/hdb3 and setup grub in that disks’s Master Boot Record (MBR). Grub has a shell: # grub grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit Despite the…