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.
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....
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