[Wylug-help] SUSE cock-up

[scott]

That worked. Thanks.

 

Since you are pretty good with windows.  After the first recovery I did - on
automatic recovery, I have now found out - from a while back windows doesn't
always seem to want to boot. Any ideas, as I have trawled the internet and
haven't come across anything referring to it which would fix the problem. 

 

Scott

 

 

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From: Toft, Alex [mailto:A.Toft at leedsmet.ac.uk] 
Sent: 18 July 2007 12:21
To: scott; wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [Wylug-help] SUSE cock-up

 

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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