9.2 Blown out again

From: Charlie (geezer1016_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:10:00 GMT

        I have a dual boot with 9.2 and XP Pro. I was on the XP machine and
noticed that I had two tiny partitions in the front of the drive. One
was 32 MB the other 988 MB one FAT one FAT32 the Linux swap drive was
behind those. I decided to merge the two FAT partitions making them
FAT32, that worked fine, but when I went to get back to Linux, all I get
is a line that says grub. I have tried to sign in as root etc, could not
do it. This is about the 3rd time in a week I have had to rebuild my
SUSE system because I did something that turned out to be stupid.
        I have put the SUSE DVD in and went to the repair. I did an automatic
repair. When it reboots it goes into the SUSE start up but ends at a
command line and asks me to sign in. I sign in as root but cant get past
that. I dont know what to do to repair it so it boots as it did before.
BTW, I had to do a fixmbr in the off the windows disk to get on line.
        It is good to get practice installing SUSE but I have done it enough
times so I think I can handle that much and want to get on to something
new.
        Please help me out if you can.

Charlie

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