On Monday 03 February 2003 10:25, Thomas Widlundh wrote:

Hi,

I have a machine with 2 hdd:s. On the 1st one I have Win-xp. On the 2nd suse 8.0 (hdb) The machine used to be started by LILO. Now the first one crashed so I had to buy a new disk and install win-xp again. I understand that there is no LILO anymore, but I try to start suse with a diskette and/or the 1st CD. On the screen I can choose from several alternatives. Choosing "installed os:s" only windows will start. Choosing "recovery" a kernel is loaded and I'll get a log-in prompt. I do a log-in as the user me, and this seems to work, but obviously I'm not really in on hdb. There are hardly no dir:s at all in my place in home. Anybody knows how to log-in and change to the real hdd (hdb)? Regards, Thomas

If there's no damage to /dev/hdb, then choosing the 'boot installed system' ought to allow you to specify the root partition of hdb (eg /dev/hdb1, or /dev/hdb3, whatever) and bring up your system. I seem distantly to remember that you get two goes at this, one the first time the system boots from CD, and again if you choose 'installation'. If the first doesn't work, try the second. That's a guess, I haven't got the requisite disks in front of me. You should be able to figure out which is the root partition of hdb by mounting partitions of hdb from the rescue system and listing the contents. Once the system is up, and assuming you have done a straight swap-out of /dev/hda, then running LILO again ought to reinstall the MBR you had before and bring back your dual boot. I have certainly done this on older versions of Windows, don't know my way round XP though. HTH Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk