The 03.10.19 at 15:55, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
OK, let's go to the boot DVD. I got to the "Boot Installed System" prompt, told it to go. At this point, I got the error message that it couldn't boot all the partitions, look at /var/log/YaST2/y2log for details. Of course, at this point in the process, it's not possible to get to a console to look at the log so as to try to fix it.
¿No? ¿Did you try ctrl-alt-f1..f4?
The only way I got Linux back was to do a new installation, telling Yast that it could only format my /boot partition and not to load anything else. All in all, that's not a bad option as my other partitions / directories were left untouched. It would be kinda nice to have an option on the CD to restore MBR and Grub without doing anything else.
Lilo saves a backup copy of the original sector on a file, which can be used to restore the original boot before installing lilo. And running lilo from the rescue system will restore the lilo boot. Grub doesn't have an uninstall option, but you can still make a backup copy manually (with dd). There is also a method somewhere to restore grub, but at the moment I have a headache and I don't feel like searching for it. Manually, from the rescue CD, and probably documented - but i agree, it should be easier to find. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson