How To Restore Grub After Windows Reinstall

Hi There!

I have windows XP and Suse Linux 10.1 on my notebook on different partitions. Windows was installed first, Linux afterwards, that way, everything worked fine, GRUB loads Windows and Linux well. Now my Windows Installation is once again really ****ed up, so i have to reinstall it. I think windows rewrites the MBR with its own code, so how do I restore GRUB when I'm done? I'd like to keep all the GRUB-Settings as they are now..

greetings,
Irion.

After you've installed window boot from the suse install cd/dvd.
After the license agreement, you'll be prompted for installation type select "other" then "repair installed system"
In the options you're presented with you'll see entrys for the master boot record (grub) and partition checks.
Select those and run the repair.

Eds

I fear a have a problem..

I set up windows, and then started the system from the suse dvd. First, I went to advanced options and wantet to setup grub manually, i chose the MBR as installation location. I clicked ok and after it was finished, rebooted. Still only windows. Then i tried the (user defined, package checking excluded) automatic repair, which also checked the file systems and fstab, but when it comes to the bootloader, setup alway says: "Looking for Bootloader: GRUB found ---- OK" and does nothing about grub... but still i can only boot windows.

any ideas?

Ok, i solved it by myself, this was the trick:

I booted from the DVD but i didn't choose to repair an installation, but to boot an existing installation. then i went to yast and set up the bootloader from there.. worked perfectly well

The symptom you're describing usually results from juggling drives around between installation and ending up with two bootable drives.
Grub will install where you specify, but the BIOS will boot from the first bootable dribve it sees, and if that isn't where grub is, then you get the windows bootloader instead.