Booting problem with OpenSUSE 10.2

[chrisharkness]

I have openSUSE 10.2 installed on an ide drive in my PC, along side it i have MAC OSX on the same drive, and Windows XP on a serial ATA, and i have been using acronis os selector, it has succesfully detected SUSE when i installed it, but now it won't recognise the os as being there, i think this is since i used fdisk /mbr on a windows boot disk when xp failed to boot. When i use my SUSE dvd to boot from, it first booted acronis, and now trys to boot darwin/osx86, so i need to reconfigure grub i think. I have looked at this:

http://linux-poison.blogspot.com/200...rub-after.html.

It is written for fedora core and not SUSE, and it doesn't work from the outset with the chroot command, so i need a different way. Does anyone know how to fix this? I have tried runing the rescue system option on the suse disk, and running grub-install etc.... but it says the file system is read only. I really hope there is a way to get this working again, cos its taken me a lot of reading and late nights to get absolutely everything perfect how i wanted it and have all my hardware work perfectly and ill be really annoyed if i have to start from scratch!
Any help is massively appreciated!!

[devils casper]

boot up from SuSe Installation DVD, select Installation --- Update. click next, next and next. installer will re-install GRUB.

[chrisharkness]

i'd thought of that, but the option isn't there, but if you run install, then it gives you the option, which i never thought of, im glad it was as simple as that. Back to linux again, thank god for that! i've spent ages trying to do it in loads of different ways and got nowhere. thanks.

[devils casper]

i'd thought of that, but the option isn't there, but if you run install, then it gives you the option

thats what i suggested you.. Installation --> Update..

glad to help you......

[chrisharkness]

i meant there was no option saying install-update on the initial menu which is what i thought you meant, which was an option when i initially installed it cos i had a previous version on i think... or it may have been another distro, but thats irrelevant....

i have done that now, but for some reason it isn't reading the documents and settings folder in windows, which is where a lot of my music and stuff is stored cos its a much bigger faster disk, and i have limited space on the linux disk, i have unmounted it and mounted it again with no luck,
any ideas?

p.s it is reading the rest of the disk, it just shows that as being empty, when its a good 5 or 6 gigs or so.

[devils casper]

post the output of 'fdisk -l' and 'df -h' commands.

[chrisharkness]

fdisk -l:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 2 3769 30266428+ af Unknown
/dev/hda2 3770 7476 29776477+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 3770 3963 1558273+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 3964 5392 11478411 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 5393 7476 16739698+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 19456 156280288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

df-h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 11G 4.4G 6.0G 43% /
udev 506M 120K 506M 1% /dev
/dev/hda7 16G 7.5G 7.5G 51% /home
/dev/sda1 150G 47G 103G 32% /windows/C
like i say its reading the rest of the disk, im wondering if it is perhaps a permissions thing...

[devils casper]

/dev/sda1 150G 47G 103G 32% /windows/C

47GB used and 103GB free.
how did you mount this partition? did you set umask value?

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /windows/C -o defaults,umask=0

[chrisharkness]

i just mounted and unmounted it in konqueror not in terminal
i unmounted it and then ran the code you said, but no difference
as for umask, im not sure what it is..

[devils casper]

umask=0 enables full default access to all users.
i think i am not getting your question correctly. could you explain a bit more?