[Wylug-help] SUSE cock-up

Wed Jul 18 15:45:16 BST 2007

Yeah we have.   Thanks for that.

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From: Toft, Alex [mailto:A.Toft at leedsmet.ac.uk] 
Sent: 18 July 2007 14:55
To: scott; wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [Wylug-help] SUSE cock-up

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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