Grub MIA after reinstalling XP - FIXED

[quentinterintino]

Hey all,

I recently decided to reformat my windows partition and reinstall XP due to some ongoing annoying problems (I use Linux ~80% of the time). Unfortunately, I can't even load linux (suse 9.1)... grub seems to have disappeared and now XP loads right up. I know the drive is mounted b/c windows/linux share 1 hd.

I'm hoping someone has experienced this and can tell me an easy way to fix the prob...

Thanks!

 

[Sunner]

Yep, Windows does that during install.
You'll need to reinstall GRUB(on your MBR, not reinstall the package), I don't remember the proper commands offhand, but here's the manual and here's the installation part.

It's not very complicated, just a few commands to run since you already have the grub.conf setup.

 

[quentinterintino]

sweet, thanks.

 

[quentinterintino]

OK , got it working. In case any others have done this, here's a quick guide on how to do on suse. I post it b/c suse is a little different than red hat / debian/ all freaking others.

1) Boot from suse cd
2) Select Rescue system
3) enter root as login
4) #fdisk -l to see which partition linux is on
5) #grub
6) grub> root (hd0,5) --- note, this was for my case, your partition may be different
7) grub> setup (hd0)
8) grub> quit
9) # reboot

simple as that... unfortunately you can't type 'linux rescue' at the boot options like i'm used to w/ red hat..

anyway, if anyone is reinstalling windows you'll probably go through this at some point

thanks to sunner for the help.

 

[TonyRic]

or you could have mounted /dev/hda6 to /tmp and then chroot /dev/hda6 then "grub install " and you are done. Of course this is assuming you don't have a separate /boot.