-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-04-25 at 14:23 +0200, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
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?
Well, as your friend formatted the linux partition, one has to think that there is no intention to reinstall linux, so repairing grub is not a requirement. Rather, use vista tools to repair vista. Time ago, it was "fdisk /mbr", dunno about vista. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknzJrEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WHlgCeKwS0ExQBQBWMMVnoflon9Fv+ mLUAoJGSeJ9bpwuwIANVE/z5FkXsEDt4 =auDC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----