lost grub

[scrarfussi]

i was dual booting suse 10.2 and windows xp but then i decided to insatll mandriva 2007 i resized my windows partition with gparted then without booting first i installed mandriva installation went fine but mandriva grub did not pick up suse so i booted any way instaed of selecting mandriva i chose windows it was showing windows then windows 1 windows 2 windows3 i just selected the first windows then it went to restore it restored all my windows files it was like having a new pc again had to re set everything problem now is ive lost grub both for suse and mandriva and i want my suse grub back as in i'm just trying out mandriva . but muy suse mo important

[devils casper]

Boot up from SuSe Installation CD and select Installation. Select 'Update' in next option list. Click on next next next.. Installer will re-install SuSe's GRUB.

i chose windows it was showing windows then windows 1 windows 2 windows3 i just selected the first windows then it went to restore it restored all my windows files it was like having a new pc again had to re set everything problem

Mandriva GRUB has added an entry for Windows Recovery Partition too. I think your first partition in the Hard Disk is Hidden Recovery Partition.

After re-installing SuSe's GRUB, you can add an entry of Mandriva in SuSe.

[scrarfussi]

i tried update but it wont work i get the error the root partition in / etc /fstab has an invalid root device it is currently mounted as /dev/hda7 but listed as /dev/hda6 so update is not possible i've tried using repair but that didnt work it picks up two copies of opensuse and mandriva and asks me to choose a root partition which ever i choose it fails i tried booting into suse but x wouldn't start up is there a way i can fix frm terminal

[scrarfussi]

i can't boot into mandriva either looks like all this was a waste of time should never hav installed it now gonna hav to restart all over again formatting and installing

[vengeance]

if u got a live cd u can edit the fstab contents and can pt to the actual root partition no need for formatting .

[scrarfussi]

i hav several live cds even a opensuse 10.2 live dvd how do i edit fstab contents from there

[devils casper]

Boot up from any LiveCD and mount / (root) partition of SuSe and edit its /etc/fstab file.

[scrarfussi]

thanx but i just remembered i do hav /dev/hda6 its just it was messed up my windows coz now when i boot to window's i hav a third drive size 2gb free space 528mb and from window's i can't c wats filling it but when i try repair grub and click show all partitions it show's as an unknown partition mandriva renamed the drive or something

[vengeance]

try to delete and recreate that partition from windows or ne 3rd party partition manager

[scrarfussi]

try to delete and recreate that partition from windows or ne 3rd party partition manager

i reinstalled this time started by installing mandriva then put suse now i gotta reinstall everything but its all good i learnt my lesson