Re: Triple Boot

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:08:27 -0400, Dan C wrote:

I did this years ago with different versions of Windows and linux...I have
Opensusu 10.2 installed along with XP with grub as a boot manager. When I
dual booted XP and Vista, after loading vista, the windows boot mangager
from vista took over and now i cannot access my opensuse. Is there a way to
insert the opensuse DVD and restore my Linux system and KEEP XP/ vista?
Like having grub come up first, then if i choose windows, it will take me to
the Windows Bootloader?
Thanks

dan

You can easily restore your previous GRUB setup:

1) boot any Live CD
2) from a terminal, run grub
3) grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 if you're not sure of the partition
4) grub> root (hdn,m) where n and m come from above
5) grub> setup (hd0) assuming you want MBR written to hda
6) grub> quit
7) reboot - your previous setup has been restored. you should be able to
add vista (though I'm not sure why you'd want to) to /boot/grub/menu.lst.

BTW it's a bit easier if you just save the MBR to a file using dd, do your
diddling and then restore MBR from the saved file (again, with any Live CD).

.

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