boot loader

[Sid_terminator]

I had windows xp sp2. I installed suse 10.3 and it was working fine. the i installed a fresh copy of windows xp sp2. when i restarted it booted directly into windows. I inserted the suse 10.3 dvd and as said in one of the help manuals which came along with it i tried to use the new installation-> repair->yast... well something like that. but it didn't work.
Then I just tried new installation-> update. After a while it restarted and the menu with options came:
1.open suse 10.3
2.windows
3.suse failsafe
4.suse xen(something like that and this came after I used the update option from the dvd).

now when I get into any of the three it asks for root password and once i enter it it log in and something comes up as
rescue~#


i am able to see my files and all but how do i make the login proper as before?

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Does rescue~# prompt appear on select Windows title too?

[Sid_terminator]

no. it comes only when i select the suse option.

[yancek]

When you reinstall windows with another operating system on your computer, windows will overwrite the master boot record. That's why it re-booted after the xp re-install to windows. It eliminated your Grub bootloader, at least the portion which was in the mbr.

If you log in to opensuse and as root user run command fdisk -l and post the output here, someone should be able to tell you the exact commands to re-install Grub bootloader.

[devils casper]

It looks like GRUB has been re-installed but all options in menu.lst file are set for rescue mode only.
Boot up from any LiveCD, mount / partition of SuSe and post the contents of menu.lst file here.

[Sid_terminator]

(repair filesystem) # fdisk -l

when i used the command fidsk -l; something like this came up.

Disk /dev/sda: 40 GB...
...
...


Device Boot start end blocks id system

dev/sda1 * 1 1275 7 HPFS/NTFS

dev/sda2 f W95 Ext'd(LBA)

dev/sda5 7 HPFS/NTFS

dev/sda6 7 HPFS/NTFS

dev/sda7 82 Linux swap/Solaris

dev/sda8 83 Linux

dev/sda9 83 Linux

dev/sda10 7 HPFS/NTFS



I didn't include all the details because I thought these shoud be sufficient.

[Jonathan183]

dev/sda8 83 Linux
dev/sda9 83 Linux

It looks as though you have Linux on either sda8 or sda9. You will need to mount the partitions and list contents ... try these ...

mkdir /sda8 /sda9
mount /dev/sda8 /sda8
mount /dev/sda9 /sda9
cat /sda8/boot/grub/menu.lst
cat /sda8/etc/fstab
cat /sda9/boot/grub/menu.lst
cat /sda9/etc/fstab

[Sid_terminator]

### don't change this comment -YaST2(and something else)
title open SUSE 10.3
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-3 default root= /dev/dis/by-id/scsi-SATA(some long number) vga=0x314 splash= silent showopts
initrd /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-3 default

###dont change this(...)
title windows
root noverify(hd0,7)
chainloader(hd0,0)+1

similar two more options for failsafe and xen

[Sid_terminator]

seems like suse is present in sda8 and these wher the contents of menu.lst


### don't change this comment -YaST2(and something else)
title open SUSE 10.3
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-3 default root= /dev/dis/by-id/scsi-SATA(some long number) vga=0x314 splash= silent showopts
initrd /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-3 default

###dont change this(...)
title windows
root noverify(hd0,7)
chainloader(hd0,0)+1

similar two more options for failsafe and xen


after i edit them is :wq the command to save and quit?

[yancek]

Your windows entry needs to be "rootnoverify", one word, no space and (hd0,0) not (hd0,7)

title windows
rootnoverify(hd0,0)
chainloader +1