[Liverpool] Gentoo live CD

[Vladimir J.]

you have done loads of work which was not necessary.
Windows XP overwrites any bootloader by default, without any given  
choice.
so WinXP in your case has overwritten GRUB loader [binary].
if you spent 2 minutes googling before messing around with the OSes on
your machine, you'd know this. and you would have installed Windows  
first, then
SUSE, and the latter would give you a choice - of what to boot into at  
the
GRUB boot promp.
but even after that - 2 minutes googling would provide you with a
5 mins fix. it's simple.
boot into a live cd (SUSE, in this case)
mount a partition where you installed SUSE
(guess with many modern distros it would be already mounted for you)
let's say it's mounted on /media/disk1

#chroot /media/disk1
#grub-install /dev/disk1 (or whatever the device it would be in your  
case)
ctrl+d, reboot
voila!!
you can now boot into linux and modify your /boot/grub/menu.list
(sometimes different on some systems, and could be called grub.conf,  
but the synthax of the file is the same)
to add windows xp into boot menu. like this

# title   F*king WindowsXP
# root   (hd0,0) - this depends on your setup
# makeactive
# chainloader   +1


enjoy (or rather RTFM)

regards,

vladimir

On 26 Aug 2008, at 15:40, James Mahon wrote:

> Hello John Bywater
> I have just installed Suse 11  then I installed WinXP which wiped  
> the Suse 11 MBR
> so I installed  UBUNTU 8 Desktop and it rescued them both
> Three OS
> I do not think any LIVE OS will use any disk space unless it asks  
> first and then only the SWAP file
> Really I should get a proper SMART BOOT PROGRAM   but I never have  
> as yet
> James Mahon at breatheeasy-all.com
>
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