** Reply to message from "Joe Morris (NTM)"
On 10/30/2007 02:26 PM, Stan Goodman wrote:
So what options are available to me now? To discard what is there and make a New Install?
Just use the rescue system to repair GRUB, reboot and complete the install. I also had a grub failure due to an old mdadm.conf file, but fixing it was not that hard and install picked up where it had left off.
It is clear that the MBR has not been disturbed, because the BootManager, which resides in the MBR, is intact. Since GRUBB resides in its own little partition, I am assuming that it too is intact, or at least its partition is still available to have GRUBB installed on it. That means that what I have to do is to get into YaST2 and redirect the loader to where it should be, or equivalently to give a command-line instruction that will do the same thing. I don't know how to do either of those things, and the books I have here don't tell me. I have never used the Rescue entry into SuSE. I have tried to go into it, and am confronted with a demand for an ID and PW. I tried "root" as ID, but I have no idea at all what it will accept as a PW. What's a reasonable password for Rescue? How can I find how to select the loader location? I have never used the
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64
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