Ok, so I am re-installing Windows XP on my desktop PC, and I got it to wipe the windows directory, and put itself in. But now, It cleared off the MBR, and I can't boot $#!T. Any ideas on how to get GRUB back?
I think you can boot to the install CD (for whatever version you have, not necessarily what is installed) and choose to boot to existing installation. Once you are booted to you existing installation, you can use yast / yast2 to configure your bootloader. B-) On Monday 20 December 2004 02:30 pm, TheBlue wrote:
Ok, so I am re-installing Windows XP on my desktop PC, and I got it to wipe the windows directory, and put itself in. But now, It cleared off the MBR, and I can't boot $#!T. Any ideas on how to get GRUB back?
Brad Bourn wrote:
I think you can boot to the install CD (for whatever version you have, not necessarily what is installed) and choose to boot to existing installation. Once you are booted to you existing installation, you can use yast / yast2 to configure your bootloader.
B-)
On Monday 20 December 2004 02:30 pm, TheBlue wrote:
Ok, so I am re-installing Windows XP on my desktop PC, and I got it to wipe the windows directory, and put itself in. But now, It cleared off the MBR, and I can't boot $#!T. Any ideas on how to get GRUB back?
An other way is to boot the installation CD and pick install. Then after choosing language pick the repair option and it will reinstall grub. That is what I did. Robert Rawlinson
Sounds like a plan.
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:16:25 -0700, Robert A. Rawlinson
Brad Bourn wrote:
I think you can boot to the install CD (for whatever version you have, not necessarily what is installed) and choose to boot to existing installation. Once you are booted to you existing installation, you can use yast / yast2 to configure your bootloader.
B-)
On Monday 20 December 2004 02:30 pm, TheBlue wrote:
Ok, so I am re-installing Windows XP on my desktop PC, and I got it to wipe the windows directory, and put itself in. But now, It cleared off the MBR, and I can't boot $#!T. Any ideas on how to get GRUB back?
An other way is to boot the installation CD and pick install. Then after choosing language pick the repair option and it will reinstall grub. That is what I did. Robert Rawlinson
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On Monday 20 December 2004 21:30, TheBlue wrote:
Ok, so I am re-installing Windows XP on my desktop PC, and I got it to wipe the windows directory, and put itself in. But now, It cleared off the MBR, and I can't boot $#!T. Any ideas on how to get GRUB back? Boot from your Suse installation media and reinstall grub.
TheBlue wrote:
Ok, so I am re-installing Windows XP on my desktop PC, and I got it to wipe the windows directory, and put itself in. But now, It cleared off the MBR, and I can't boot $#!T. Any ideas on how to get GRUB back?
If you're going to make it suffer, by running only Windows, you can re-enable booting, by running "fdisk /mbr", from a Windows boot floppy.
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