Quoting John Cooper <lug@???>:
> 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
ok
> then
> chroot to it
I dont know what chroot means, i presume it means change to root something.
Can you tell me command line for chroot?
> and run grub-install. This should pick up your original
> /etc/grub.conf
I did run grub-install anyhow and it want another option that i couldnt figure out.
Thanks
Martin N
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