Re: [SLE] MBR Nightmare
From: Patrick Malone (patm_at_thecameracar.co.uk)
Date: 10/20/03
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To: Michael Satterwhite <michael@weblore.com>, SUSE English <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 22:31:54 +0000 (GMT)
Michael Satterwhite <michael@weblore.com> wrote the Oct 19, 2003 8:55 PM:
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> I did the reload of Win2K, and getting Linux back was nothing short of a
> nightmare.
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> As expected, Win2K destroyed the ability to get to SuSE. The real blame for
> what happens belongs to Microsoft, as they don't know how to play nicely with
> other systems. There's a bit of blame to go around, though.
>
> As expected, the floppy boot disk is useless for getting back to SuSE. It goes
> to the MBR, which pointed only to Windows.
>
> OK, let's go to the boot DVD. I got to the "Boot Installed System" prompt,
> told it to go. At this point, I got the error message that it couldn't boot
> all the partitions, look at /var/log/YaST2/y2log for details. Of course, at
> this point in the process, it's not possible to get to a console to look at
> the log so as to try to fix it.
>
> The only way I got Linux back was to do a new installation, telling Yast that
> it could only format my /boot partition and not to load anything else. All in
> all, that's not a bad option as my other partitions / directories were left
> untouched. It would be kinda nice to have an option on the CD to restore MBR
> and Grub without doing anything else. Total time to reload Windows with all
> software: 3 hours. Total time to get Linux running again after this: 4.5
> hours. There's gotta be a better way.
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Here's how I do it.
A small FAT partition (5M or so) to install a boot manager. I use the one from Partition Magic but YMMV.
Install Windows using the next partition (D:) as the install drive. If you need you can reinstall the Boot Manager after this point with a floppy to overwrite the MBR.
Install Linux on any other Drive/Partition.
Install Grub or LiLO on the Linux partition (/boot or / depending on how you want to go) not on the FAT partition with the Boot Manager.
The boot manager then sees the Linux partition and a menu entry can be added.
Now when the machine boots the boot manager chooses either the Win partition or the Linux partition and GRUB takes over.
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