Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Ken Schneider <kschneider@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 08:13, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote:
> Yesterday, I tried booting with SuSE CD #1, and I selected the option 
> Rescue System. I logged in as root (without password) and typed $fdisk 
> /dev/hda and <INTRO> after this.
> Just the "p" key could show me all my partitions in Primary master:
> I have 11 (eleven) units and the main partitions are:
> /dev/hda1 * = where Win Me is installed
> /dev/hda6 = Linux
> /dev/hda7 = Linux swap
> /dev/hda8 = where Win XP is
> I tried making hda6 or hda7 bootable but it was not enough. Just hda1 
> could boot some OS (in this case the winxp boot manager).
> I think i should rebuild lilo or grub. Is that the case?
> I want grub (I guess that it is the name of the linux boot manager that 
> is loaded when we insert the SuSE CD #1 to boot, isn't?). I tried 
> grub_install /dev/hda but this command was not found.

grub_install is in the /usr/sbin directory which is not in your path.
Try using:

/usr/sbin/grub_install /dev/hda

which should work.


-- 
Ken Schneider
unix user since 1989
linux user since 1994
SuSE user since 1998