Re: Lost MBR after windows installed
- From: anton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Anton Ertl)
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:36:55 GMT
Robert Taylor <rmtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Greetings!
My difficulty is that the SuSE 10.2 MBR was hosed when I installed Win
XP on the first SATA disk (sda1) and the SuSE partitions are on the
second drive (sdb1, sdb2 ... sdb5). Since the MBR was originally on what
is now sdb1 and the MBR is on the other drive there seems to be no way
to fix this other than to "update" the system. Is this correct?
The normal way to fix this is to boot from a rescue CD and then run
the installer of your boot loader. No "update" necessary, whatever
that may be.
Doing a
repair from install disk did not seem to work. The built in script kept
telling me that it was trying to write to a disk that does not exist and
failed during repeated attempts to fix this.
This sounds like some problem I have had with grub-install, where it
just did not know which drive I meant. I eventually got it to work,
but it took many more tries than it should. I have not experienced
such problems with LILO.
- anton
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