On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Paul Franz <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not a grub problem. The solution is to rewrite the mbr. You do this > easily by > booting from a floppy disk with DOS from Win 98 or newer then: > > fdisk /mbr
I think this is more complicated than that. Typically 'fdisk /mbr' is used to rebuild a windows compatible MBR after installing linux and having a bootloader such as grub or lilo overwrite it. I believe it copies a standard backup Microsoft boot loader[1] from elsewhere on the disk to the MBR, although it may simply contain it in fdisk. Fdisk won't have a copy of the GRUB MBR however. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Thomas Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > My question is, how to recover the grub bootloader after such an event? I > beleive I have to boot into rescue mode and run some version of grub, but I'm > not sure which, grub, grub-install, or ? I'm not familiar with SuSE. You'll want to boot into your system using a rescue CD. If it gives you the option when it is starting to boot into your system that is awesome. Otherwise you will need to start up in the rescue CD, mount your existing / partition in say, /mnt, then chroot into it. Then use grub-install to reinstall GRUB to the MBR. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/susenovell-60/reinstalling-grub-in-suse-10-393934/#post2004012 Bryan [1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q69013/
