m.nuttall@??? wrote:
> Grrrr,
>
> I had to reinstall windows 2000 which of course wiped out grub.
> Happened lots of times so i went to reinstall grub with 10.2 opensuse
> boot cd with install boot loader.
>
> Normally it works fine writing a generic mbr to the mbr but now it says its ok
> but grub doesnt exist on reboot ie it just goes to windows boot menu (2k,xp)
>
> Trying other options gives an error of cant find (hd0,6). My root partition is
> hda7 so why is it mentioning (hd0,6) ?
>
> hda6 is my home partition is it getting confused?
>
> Tried livedvd suse10.0 yast but wants to write to the cd and sits there stuck at
> 50% progress.
>
> The only thing i can think of is to install the suse10.3 after formating my root
> partition.
>
> suse install bootmanager confused?
> Any other suggestions?
>
I would normally boot the recovery CD, mount the root partition then
chroot to it and run grub-install. This should pick up your original
/etc/grub.conf
John.
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