Emergency...Restore Windows..?
Hi, As a total newbie, I did a really stupid thing....I had one hard drive which was partitioned to 5 and I installed SuSE on one of drives after formatting....It was a good start....but, after I installed SuSE, I realized it was NOT installed as a dual booting like SuSE 8.0. In other words, my original OS, windows XP is gone and only linux booting is remained. Fortunately, I could keep my other drives and I could see there are three drives on the Desktop with a name '/windows/C' , '/windows/D' and 'windows/E'.... Is there anyway to keep these drives with Windows XP (dual booting)..? I really need your help!!! Thanks, _________________________________________________________________ Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es
Go to YaST Control center, click on System and open the boot loader configuration. In a second window load up either the GRUB HOWTO or manual, or any other reference on GRUB just to learn how GRUB is structured, (or LILO if that's what you are using). It won't be easy configuring it though its not an overly difficult topic. Figuring out how to do it is more a manner of getting past the geek speak rather than doing anything overly intellectually stimulating (like trying to memorize the kernel source code). Basically you are going to be "chainloading" windows though. You want to tell GRUB what your windows partition C partition is, and to pass off bootloading to the bootloader on that partition. -----Original Message----- From: Chun Ki Shin [mailto:shintuna@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 23.40 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Emergency...Restore Windows..? Hi, As a total newbie, I did a really stupid thing....I had one hard drive which was partitioned to 5 and I installed SuSE on one of drives after formatting....It was a good start....but, after I installed SuSE, I realized it was NOT installed as a dual booting like SuSE 8.0. In other words, my original OS, windows XP is gone and only linux booting is remained. Fortunately, I could keep my other drives and I could see there are three drives on the Desktop with a name '/windows/C' , '/windows/D' and 'windows/E'.... Is there anyway to keep these drives with Windows XP (dual booting)..? I really need your help!!! Thanks, _________________________________________________________________ Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 05:40, Chun Ki Shin wrote:
As a total newbie, I did a really stupid thing....I had one hard drive which was partitioned to 5 and I installed SuSE on one of drives after formatting....It was a good start....but, after I installed SuSE, I realized it was NOT installed as a dual booting like SuSE 8.0. In other words, my original OS, windows XP is gone and only linux booting is remained.
We are Linux, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile. ;) You should really be glad to have gotten rid of XP! The only bad thing about this is that the SuSE installation did not remove XP completely but only changed the bootloader... Hansen *bg* -- Powered by SuSE 8.1pro - KDE 3.0.3 - KMail 1.4.3 At least, try asking smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. - Henri Poincair'e
On Monday 08 September 2003 11:40 pm, Chun Ki Shin wrote:
Hi,
As a total newbie, I did a really stupid thing....I had one hard drive which was partitioned to 5 and I installed SuSE on one of drives after formatting....It was a good start....but, after I installed SuSE, I realized it was NOT installed as a dual booting like SuSE 8.0. In other words, my original OS, windows XP is gone and only linux booting is remained. Fortunately, I could keep my other drives and I could see there are three drives on the Desktop with a name '/windows/C' , '/windows/D' and 'windows/E'.... Is there anyway to keep these drives with Windows XP (dual booting)..?
I really need your help!!!
Thanks,
Try going into yast > system > bootloader to see if it will detect the windows partitions and update grub for you. Here's my grub/menu.1st from yast if it doesn't work... # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Sep 9 12:58:20 2003 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/message timeout 8 title linux kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=0x317 hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 splash=silent showopts initrd (hd0,5)/initrd title windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 title failsafe kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda8 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,5)/initrd.shipped -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
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