Hi listmates, - Grup says "stage 1.5", error 17 and halts. - this happens because I had a SuSE partition on a freinds laptop alongside Vista. The MBR (as I see it) contains a small programme that points to the real GRUP booter on something like hda2, I believe. My dear freind zapped the SuSE installation by having MS formatting it. But now, of course, the machine never reaches the 2nd stage of the GRUB loader...I wish to remedy it. a) can I do that using, say Knoppix or SuSE live? b) Re-install a SUSE into that partion and go from there? c) Enter any fancey GRUP commands? d) Vista repair or something, the restore partition is still present? Any recommendations? Thanks! Best regards, Verner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org