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["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Philip,

I changed the subject and am top-posting.  I don't have my notes for
doing that with me today, but I'm sure someone can tell you how fixing
grub after installing windows. is done.

Likely there is a howto page on the wiki since it has to be done so often.

Greg

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Philip Burness
<pburness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2009 22:28:40 you wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Philip Burness <pburness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > Many years ago it was possible to create a boot (floppy) disk for those
> > > times when loading windowz after Linux your boot partition was lost. Is
> > > it possible to do this still only create a boot CD disk with your image
> > > on so you can re- load grub?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > The normal SuSE install DVD supports this via the rescue menu selection.
> >
> > I don't recall if the LiveCDs do or not.
> >
> > Greg
> Hi Greg,
> Thanks for the reply,
> Do you know how to do this using the rescue menu? I am fearful that as I
> install windows on a partition on my machine it will overwrite the boot sector
> and I will not be able to boot into Linux again. Hence I'm looking for the
> command(?) mechanism to be able to re-establish the boot sector.
>
> Best Regards



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