After restoring GRUB, graphical boot/shutdown gone

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all last night i was trying to revive my windows parition, no luck, suse successfully destroyed out (i was stupid to install it with the installer that suse has for windows, that piece of **** screwed up windows vista, it said reboot with disk in, ok i rebooted with the disk in, so then it installed normal, i was wondering after suse was done "wonder what it did on windows partition with maybe some supporting files, but what do you know i grub after hitting windows u go to windows DOS boot system screen to select vista or SuSe instal [local] but if you hit vista, it goes to SUSE INSTALL ANYWAYS!!! i tried hitting suse install, same thing, so now i am stuck with either installed suse 11.2, or windows chain to install suse. Im guessing Novell is sabotaging Microsoft, i can’t wait for a lawsuit)

but anyways, i lost grub and i restored it with the suse cd, brought grub back in normal, but now hitting the suse option now gives text based boot instead of a bootsplash (i have bootsplash enabled) its like in some quick boot mode, i remember seeing something like quick or w/e in the boot thing, and i see the word “skip” quiet frequently in the boot process, it goes extremely fast, for sure under 10 seconds and most likely less. Shutdown also isn’t graphical anymore.

Any way i can disable this “quick” boot thing?

also 2nd question of lesser importance: If suse is the 2nd on the harddrive (on the harddrive map, in the beginning of the drive is windows and the 2nd part is Suse. Is there a way i can delete windows, and give the space to Suse despite Suse not being first? Or it doesn’t matter?

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You computer is so badly screwed up that you need a fresh installation.

As far as I know, you cannot push the left (lower) border of a partition to the left onto a freed (from Windows) space. But make one attempt with gparted Live CD; maybe that feature has been added.

In any case, it is always better to install Windows first (leaving some space on the hard drive unpartitioned), then install Linux.

Don’t do this (unless you have experience to correct): Install Linux, leave space for Windows (either in the beginning of the hard drive or at the end), install Windows.

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I would start the PC with the Vista boot DVD and let it do a Start Up Repair. This should get Windows booting. Once you get that going, we can go from there.:slight_smile:

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believe me, i tried it all. Thats what broke grub in the first place. I did vista gui fix,system restore bootrec.exe /fixboot and bootrec.exe /fixmbr, bcdedit.exe, i didn’t understand that well, so the best i get is to copy and paste files to my media storage drive for wine or next windows installs. This vista install is in coma, and i guess need to pull the plug on it soon.

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Sometimes, that is the quickest way to recover. You could spend a few hours getting both OSes reinstalled, or several days, trying in vain to get what you have fixed.