Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* jim [12-31-05 14:47]:

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After reinstalling $Windows98 and grub is removed from track 0 of harddrive. How do I get back into Suse10.0 to run grub-install so as to dual boot again.

Use your SUSE 10 install disk to boot and select 'run installed system'.

Suse10 install disk 1 has these options, 1. Boot from Harddisk 2. Installation- ACPI 3. Istallation- Safe settings 4. Rescue System 5. Memory Test I selected Rescue System and at Rescue login: root and #grub-install /dev/hda and it came backand gave me this error message; /dev/root: Not found or not a block device . Where do I go from here ? Thanks Jim

Hi, On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Peter Machtans wrote:

jim schrieb/wrote/a écrit/escribió:

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* jim [12-31-05 14:47]:

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After reinstalling $Windows98 and grub is removed from track 0 of harddrive. How do I get back into Suse10.0 to run grub-install so as to dual boot again.

Use your SUSE 10 install disk to boot and select 'run installed system'.

Suse10 install disk 1 has these options,

1. Boot from Harddisk 2. Installation- ACPI 3. Istallation- Safe settings 4. Rescue System 5. Memory Test

I selected Rescue System and at Rescue login: root

1. Boot from Harddisk ... should be your option ... that is what Patrick meant by "and select 'run installed system'"

No, this would need a valid boot loader. Start with "2. Installation", then abort at the next chance and you will get an ncurses menu which allows to "boot installed system". Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)

Hi, On Saturday 31 December 2005 20:45, jim wrote:

After reinstalling $Windows98 and grub is removed from track 0 of harddrive. How do I get back into Suse10.0 to run grub-install so as to dual boot again.

To reinstall your grub bootloader boot from the installation disk. Choose "Installation" from the boot menu. After YaST ist started choose your language and accept the license agreement. When you are asked for the installation mode (new installation or update) click on the "Other..."-Button. Choose "Repair installed System". Then I'd suggest "Customised Repair" -> "Check Boot Loader Configuration". The rest should be self explaining. After the repair is finished you can boot from your harddrive and grub will be working again. Christopher -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christopher Hofmann | Tel. 0911/74053 -104 | SuSE R&D - Internal Tools ~~~~~~~~~~~ Current weather in Nuernberg: -0.6°C, Overcast ~~~~~~~~~~~~

Siegbert Baude wrote:

Christopher Hofmann schrieb:

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To reinstall your grub bootloader boot from the installation disk. Choose "Installation" from the boot menu.

After YaST ist started choose your language and accept the license agreement. When you are asked for the installation mode (new installation or update) click on the "Other..."-Button.

Choose "Repair installed System".

Then I'd suggest "Customised Repair" -> "Check Boot Loader Configuration". The rest should be self explaining. After the repair is finished you can boot from your harddrive and grub will be working again.

As I also had to go this way once, and had to search for a long time. Who is responsible for the layout of the installation media menu layout? To hide the repair option in the "other"-part of the "installation"-path is about as braindead as stopping a system in the start-menu.

Ciao Siegbert

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I definitly could no have said it better. Jim

Hi, On Monday 02 January 2006 13:54, Siegbert Baude wrote:

As I also had to go this way once, and had to search for a long time. Who is responsible for the layout of the installation media menu layout? To hide the repair option in the "other"-part of the "installation"-path is about as braindead as stopping a system in the start-menu.

_Please_ follow Hartmut's suggestion to report it as a usibility bug! http://www.opensuse.org/Submit_a_bug [ SuSE internal voices don't count as much as external ones. ;) ] Christopher -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christopher Hofmann | Tel. 0911/74053 -104 | SuSE R&D - Internal Tools ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Current weather in Nuernberg: 0.2°C, Overcast ~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hi Hartmut, Hartmut Meyer schrieb:

On Monday 02 January 2006 13:54, Siegbert Baude wrote:

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As I also had to go this way once, and had to search for a long time. Who is responsible for the layout of the installation media menu layout? To hide the repair option in the "other"-part of the "installation"-path is about as braindead as stopping a system in the start-menu.

There might be good reasons for why the system repair is only reachable this way.

However, feel free to report this as a usability bug:

http://www.opensuse.org/Submit_a_bug

Done: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141219 Ciao Siegbert