Grub2 trashed. How to fix?

[imported_brandon]

To keep a long story short, I had a spontaneous reboot whilst under OpenSuse 12.2, using the latest KDE 4.9. When I was running yast, updating some software, it spontaneously rebooted, and it trashed Grub.

Thankfully, I had PartedMagic handy, which allowed me to make it so at the very least, reinstall Windows' MBR, so I could boot into a usable OS. I want to fix Grub2, so I can boot into SuSE, since it works with my speaker setup better than Windows.

Any ideas?

 

[lxskllr]

See this...

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html#mozTocId842078

 

[KillerBee]

Grub2 is like the Windows8 of linux - I'm sure there are advantages but I hate them both 😛

 

[joetekubi]

Grub2 is like the Windows8 of linux - I'm sure there are advantages but I hate them both 😛

I little too "soft and fuzzy" answer for me. Grub2 is evil, fixing it typically involves black magic. Had numerous troubles with it. Recently, my laptop Grub2 started refusing to find my Win7 partition. Reinstalled os-prober, waved some chicken bones at it - no progress - finally grabbed the grub.cfg entries from a month ago(thank god for backups), and just manually update the grub.cfg everytime it gets modified by an update.

 

[MrColin]

Whenever possible I like to use separate drives for dual boot systems. I unplug the data cable to the windows drive whenever messing with partitions or formatting. This way, if grub2 dies the windows bootloader is still intact.and generating a new cfg from the live linux system later is pretty easy.

 

[joetekubi]

Whenever possible I like to use separate drives for dual boot systems. I unplug the data cable to the windows drive whenever messing with partitions or formatting. This way, if grub2 dies the windows bootloader is still intact.and generating a new cfg from the live linux system later is pretty easy.

Agreed. Unfortunately, don't have much of choice with a laptop.