Hi
I have a BIG problem.
I have a brand new Dell with 2 sata drive.
I installed Opensuse 10.3 on /dev/sdb while WinXp was installed
(factory) on dev/sda/
Everything went smoothly and I spent 2 days to install and recover
data from my old PC
(dead).
However, after 2 days, S.M.A.R.T indicated that dev/sda was dying.
(the drive with Windows and... grub on the MBR).
Dell promptly send a new disk, and I replaced the faulty one.
This drive has nothing on it.
I thought that, booting on the SuSe 10.3 dvd and opening a root
console to reinstall grub
would do the trick. I did that once, when I upgraded a dual boot
machine from win 2000 to
win XP and had to restore the MBR.
So i booted from the dvd, choosed installation,>more option, >boot
existing system
The installer found my / partition (dev/sdb1) but stop before allowing GUI.
It asked for a root password. I gave it and had a prompt.
then i typed :
grub
find /boot/grub/stage1 /// found (hd1,0) which is correct (dev /sdb1)
root (hd1,0)
setup (hd0)
quit
I rebooted and nothing !!!
What did i missed ?
Should i install grub ? ie grub-install hd0 ? I thought the previous
command would do it ?
Should I install windoz on dev/sda ?
Should I install opensuse 10.3 on dev/sda and during installation
choose /dev/sdb3 as home directory ?
Should I install Opensuse 10.3 on dev/sda and then move all the data
from /dev/sdb ?
the two last seems to be great ideas, however, it means that I will
have to start again
all the installation !! How safe is the second one ?
I really need to boot the installed system very quickly !!!
Thank you for your help.
Matthias
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