[opensuse] How to get Grub back after XP re-install
Hello I have Opensuse 10.2 on one harddisk and XP on another one and Grub to start and make my choice. What should I care for while I have to re-install XP? How do I get back the Grub opening-screen? TIA André den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2007-04-10 09:32, A. den Oudsten wrote:
Hello I have Opensuse 10.2 on one harddisk and XP on another one and Grub to start and make my choice. What should I care for while I have to re-install XP? How do I get back the Grub opening-screen?
Felix Miata has some very good webpages on a lot of OS-related topics, and this happens to be one of them: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/install-doz-after.html -- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- HG Wells -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
best way is to install from the begenning grup on it's own partition and to start from XP drive with XP and from linux drive with linux... it's then just a line in XP's boot.ini jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Lucien Dodin, inventeur http://lucien.dodin.net/index.shtml -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
A good possibility is to install GRUB for Windows: (use grubinstall) http://www.geocities.com/lode_leroy/grubinstall/ http://www.linux-sxs.org/administration/grubxp.html http://www.bo.infn.it/alice/alice-doc/mll-doc/linux/advanced/node50.html http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/grub/html_chapter/grub_4.html http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/grub/html_chapter/grub_12.html#SEC94 https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104188 http://www.openbg.net/sto/os/xml/grub.html but this requires some knowledge of GRUB, so I provided you with the links you need to understand everything needed to complete the operatiion. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:32 +0200, A. den Oudsten wrote:
Hello I have Opensuse 10.2 on one harddisk and XP on another one and Grub to start and make my choice. What should I care for while I have to re-install XP? How do I get back the Grub opening-screen?
TIA
André den Oudsten
Well that's pretty simple to solve,
first make sure the harddisk containing SUSE is set as the master and
the Windows drive as slave (either you use a map as i will describe in
next step, already have it installed or switch HD manually). Make sure
the computer is going to boot from grub located on master disk.
Secondly add a entry in your menu.lst file for windows (located
at /boot/grub/menu.lst) something like this:
title Windows yada version
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
rootnoverify (hd1)
chainloader +1
Just be sure to replace the rootnoverify partition with the correct one,
(this will probably be Ok if you only got windows on secondary drive).
And now as an added bonus you have windows on a slave drive witch mean
that he wont be able to screw around with the drive containing grub MBR
upon reinstall. So do those step first then you can go and install
Windows normally, to be on the safe side you might want to unplug the
drive with Linux on it, but it shouldn't be necessary.
If at any point you manage to let Windows overwrite the bootloader you
can use SUSE Cd1 recovery mode to reinstall it.
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