The problem I face is that when they re-installed XP it fried the Grub boot
loader and my system no longer dual boots.
How do I reload Grub / access my Linux? is it hit F2 on startup?
F12 at startup gives boot options in XP.
Too late ..tried Nick's advice...got to theIgnore Nick's good advice for now and take that later. Try in this order:
grub #prompt but computer did not recognize root (hd0,x) #where x was a numberTried...simply booted to Windows
1) Insert SuSE disk 1, select "boot from hard disk" from the boot menu. This may bypass the MBR. If it boots into your Linux, go into yast and reinstall boot loader.
Sorry, could not determine where this specified partition info was entered!
2) As 1), but also specify the partition containing the root filesystem (and hopefully /boot) on the boot prompt command line, like root=0x300. It's a hex number, the 3 is primary master IDE disk and the last digit is the partition number. Reinstall boot loader if it boots.
3) Boot from SuSE disk 1 but select "rescue system". You then have to fix it up on the command line, and I'd do something like
mount /dev/hda?? /mnt # mount your root filesystem
error message..Can't find in etc/fstab or /etc/mtab The XP disc manager shows three Linux partitions but no other info on them. Unable to proceed from this point on :-(
As above...tried..but no joychroot /bin/bash /mnt # make hard disk top-level mount /proc # you need the proc fs!! yast # text-based yast to reinstall boot loader # (be thankful for full power of yast even without graphics...) umount /proc # unmount in reverse exit # back to rescue system as top level umount /mnt reboot
4) Follow Nick's advice
Volker
Thanks Nick & Volker..the problem might be me of course :-)
...or maybe my Linux data has been fried and only the partitions remain. When I went into the rescue mode and tried changing to #su my password was not accepted.
Ralph
