On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Pankaj Kumar<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > Initially on my system Windows Xp and Open SUSE 11 was installed. The menu to > switch between these two operating systems was appearing with the help of > GRUB boot loader. Yesterday I reinstalled Windows Xp due to some problem in > it. Now GRUB is not appearing. So I am unable to boot into Open SUSE 11. I > know that Open SUSE 11 is still installed in one of the partition of my hard > disk. But as MBR has been overwritten by Windows Xp and so I am not able to > boot into Open SUSE 11. So please tell me how to recover GRUB on MBR?
I have run into this situation several times and the recovery is quite simple. All you need is a live CD to boot into some Linux. Assuming your root partition is /dev/sda5 and you do not have a separate /boot partition, 1. Boot live CD 2. On root prompt: # mkdir /mnt/sda5 # mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sda5 '(hd0)' 3. Reboot. HTH. Regards, Vaibhav _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
