[Wylug-help] SUSE cock-up

[Toft, Alex]

Boot the Windows CD. It will churn along for a minute or two, then
display a menu - Press Enter to Setup Windows, Press R to repair using
the recovery console. Press R.

 

It will scan for Windows installations and display a list. Select the
index number of your install, press enter. It will prompt for the admin
password. Once you put that it it will dump you to a DOS prompt. Run
those 2 commands, then type exit. The machine will reboot and your
Windows bootloader will work again.

 

Alex

 

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From: wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk
[mailto:wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of scott
Sent: 18 July 2007 12:12
To: Toft, Alex; wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [Wylug-help] SUSE cock-up

 

Hi

 

Where do you put in 

Fixmbr

And

Fixboot

As my experience with windows recovery - if I remember correctly as It
was a while ago - is it recovers the system automatically. I am using
xp64, it maybe different from xp.

 

I always have to unplug my windows drive when installing a distro with
no options of where to put grub, but SUSE did have that option so I left
the drive plugged in and it still went on sda not sdb.  You obviously
have more experience than me with SUSE so I may have missed something
out - though the install seemed pretty straight forward - or my download
may have been slightly faulty.  

 

Thank you for helping me out.

 

Scott

 

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From: wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk
[mailto:wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Toft, Alex
Sent: 18 July 2007 11:33
To: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [Wylug-help] SUSE cock-up

 

 

You need to boot from a Windows CD, open the recovery console and run
the fixmbr and fixboot commands to reinstall the Wnidows bootloader.

 

Personally I like SuSE, and it only installs the bootloader where you
tell it to.

 

Cheers,

Alex T

 

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From: wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk
[mailto:wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of scott
Sent: 18 July 2007 11:07
To: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
Subject: [Wylug-help] SUSE cock-up

 

Hello

 

I installed SUSE 10.2 a while ago and it upgraded the kernel and I
haven't been able to fix it.  Fine no problem I will use another distro.

 

Unfortunately:

Open SUSE 10.2 - even though I told the installer not to- has put
something on my windows partition hard drive that makes it boot GRUB
from that hard drive not the linux hard drive.  So now I am in fear of,
if I take SUSE off the hard drive will my windows become useless.  

 

Question:

Is there anyway I can wipe the linux drive and install another distro
without disturbing what is currently let me load windows.  As I believe
what has happened is the boot info is on the linux drive but grub on the
windows hard drive, as I created - on the linux drive - a /boot
partition so could get to know grub and mess with different distros.

 

King regards

 

Scott

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