On Monday 15 November 2004 01:09 am, Russ wrote:
I have a problem in booting to SuSE 9.1 Pro. I had a dual boot system with WIN ME and Suse. My ME got corrupted, so I reset the MBR with YaST (LILO) and then shutdown and disconnected my HDA with SuSE.I used a boot disk from ME and did an fdisk /mbr. I then formated and installed a WIN XP system. I then reconnected my SuSE hard drive but every time I try to boot from the DVD, I get the SuSE splash screen and select boot from hard drive and it goes to WIN XP. If I discond my WIN drive and convert the SuSE drive to a master it still will not boot.
I thought I could reconnect the hard drive and then use the DVD to boot and go to YaSt and resetup the Dual boot. This worked once on 9.0 but I was using Grub instead of LILO.
Any help that would prevent me from reinstall Linux would be great. I do have a backup of my Home Directory and several other changed items.
Thank you in advance. Sorry about the email from Windows but its my only choice right now.
It's a little hard to tell what you've got now since you are adding and removing hard drives.... I think what you need to do is to run the SuSE rescue system off the CD/DVD and get into your system so you can run lilo or reinstall grub. 1) boot the rescue system 2) mount /dev/<your-root-disk> /mnt 3) chroot /mnt 4) mount /dev/<your-boot-disk> /boot 5) Run lilo or install grub But if you can boot the rescue system and get to your own linux system, there will be no need to re-install anything....