-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/09 8:59 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote: > I have a potential problem booting. I want to install FreeDOS on my laptop. > I'm currently running Windoze 7 (for my wife) on sda2&3 and openSUSE 11.2 on > sda3-13. sda 1 is currently a hidden 1GB partition. > > I boot with grub 0.97-162 and have not had any major problem except when I > had > to re-install windoze which overwrote the boot sector, of course (they don't > know how to play fair). > > 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 ? > > Dell Studio 1745 > Windows 7-64 bit / openSUSE 11.2x86_64 > linux kernel: 2.6.31.5-0.1 >
You need to do the following: Reboot with a rescue disc and then do: grub > root (hd0,2) > setup (hd0) > exit What that does is tell grub that the /boot directory is in /dev/sda3 (grub's numbering is 0 based) and to install it to the MBR of /dev/sda You should then be able to reboot normally. Brian - -- - ---[Office 70.7F]--[Outside 44.9F]--[Server 106.8F]--[Coaster 70.1F]--- - ---[ HYAK (366773030) @ 47 33.6980 -122 37.4883 ]--- Software, Linux, Microcontrollers http://www.brianlane.com AIS Parser SDK http://www.aisparser.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Remember Lexington Green! iD8DBQFLLSujIftj/pcSws0RArucAJ9nb/fxxbh768qYN5cuhsTnf65RIQCgh1eu NAOBmq9E0wEK8M3V32BGED4= =cgxk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
