Thanks. Anders just pointed out I should have gone into the
installation option instead of the recovery option.
A Windows install will remove LILO or GRUB from the MBR, but will not
affect your previously installed Linux system. Therefore, booting from
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:20:52 -0800
"Greg Wallace" wrote:
the SuSE CD will give you several options:
1. Boot from Hard Disk - This will boot your existing SuSE system. After
booting, you can then bring up YaST2 and restore the MBR from
System->Boot Loader Configuration. Since your /boot/grub/menu.lst is
still in tact, you can simply go through this menu with no changes.
2. Rescue. This gives you a shell (command line). You can mount your
SuSE root, boot, and other file system. Using the chroot command, you
can make the SuSE root the current root system, and restore the MBR from
the command line. (I'll not go into further detail).
3. You can go through Install (as Sid Boyce points out). The advantage
here is that the system will detect everything you have already
installed, and simply repair the MBR.
One of the problems that can occur after repartitioning a system, is
that the partition numbers may change (eg. /dev/hda7 may become
/dev/hda8). The bottom line is that SuSE gives you some very good
options that you can use depending on your circumstance.
--
Jerry Feldman
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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