<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">you have done loads of work which was not necessary.<div>Windows XP overwrites any bootloader by default, without any given choice.</div><div>so WinXP in your case has overwritten GRUB loader [binary].</div><div>if you spent 2 minutes googling before messing around with the OSes on</div><div>your machine, you'd know this. and you would have installed Windows first, then</div><div>SUSE, and the latter would give you a choice - of what to boot into at the </div><div>GRUB boot promp.</div><div>but even after that - 2 minutes googling would provide you with a </div><div>5 mins fix. it's simple.</div><div>boot into a live cd (SUSE, in this case)</div><div>mount a partition where you installed SUSE</div><div>(guess with many modern distros it would be already mounted for you)</div><div>let's say it's mounted on /media/disk1</div><div><br></div><div>#chroot /media/disk1</div><div>#grub-install /dev/disk1 (or whatever the device it would be in your case)</div><div>ctrl+d, reboot</div><div>voila!!</div><div>you can now boot into linux and modify your /boot/grub/menu.list </div><div>(sometimes different on some systems, and could be called grub.conf, but the synthax of the file is the same)</div><div>to add windows xp into boot menu. like this</div><div><br></div><div><div># title F*king WindowsXP</div><div># root (hd0,0) - this depends on your setup</div><div># makeactive</div><div># chainloader +1</div></div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>enjoy (or rather RTFM)</div><div><br></div><div>regards, </div><div><br></div><div>vladimir</div><div><br></div><div>On 26 Aug 2008, at 15:40, James Mahon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hello John Bywater<br>I have just installed Suse 11 then I installed WinXP which wiped the Suse 11 MBR <br>so I installed UBUNTU 8 Desktop and it rescued them both<br>Three OS <br>I do not think any LIVE OS will use any disk space unless it asks first and then only the SWAP file<br> Really I should get a proper SMART BOOT PROGRAM but I never have as yet<br>James Mahon at <a href="http://breatheeasy-all.com">breatheeasy-all.com</a><br><br></div> _______________________________________________<br>Liverpool mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk">Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>