[Wylug-help] SUSE cock-up

Wed Jul 18 14:57:17 BST 2007

The other useful command from the recovery console is bootcfg. Used with
the /rebuild switch it can reconstruct your boot.ini file, which is
useful if you've moved your windows partition around etc.

If you've got a totally hosed system which won't boot after trying those
3 tweaks from the recovery console, you need what's called a repair
install. Note that this is NOT the same as an automatic repair. When you
get to the first option screen after booting from CD, press Enter to
setup windows (I know, I know... keep reading). It will scan for any
current installations and if it finds one will then offer you the chance
to repair it. If it doesn't offer you the option, you must quit at this
point. Whilst this effectively reinstalls the OS, it does not wipe any
of your installed programs, settings or files. It's useful if for
example you move your hard disc to a machine with a different
motherboard that uses a different IDE controller - a common cause of
boot blue-screens.

I've never found automatic recovery to be any use whatsoever.

Now... if we're done discussing the legacy Windoze platform... :p

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From: scott [mailto:linux at sh2515.plus.com] 
Sent: 18 July 2007 14:35
To: Toft, Alex; wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [Wylug-help] SUSE cock-up

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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