Grub Boot Help

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Dual Booting my laptop and unable to change the Boot Records on the drive. Not because I dont know how, but my primary OS will fail to boot(win7).

I have drive partitioned as follows…
sda1 = Win7 system (default install)
sda2 = Win7 Main (default install)
sda3 = swap
sda4 = Extension (I think thats what its called)
sda5 = / (ext4)

What I need is a boot cd or perferably Grub installed on a 256MB Thumb drive with the options to load the installed system from sda5.

Any ideas? Links to documents would be great.

Thanks,
John :slight_smile:

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Try supergrubdisk Boot Problems Open Source Tools | Super Grub Disk, Super Grub2 Disk and Rescatux

But mostly your post makes - Not much sense.

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You said by PM:

I have BitLocker on it, and when the OpenSuSE grub boot loader is installed, bitlocker prevents my win7 from loading till grub is removed and the original Win7 loader is back in placed.
I don’t know what this is or how it works, but it sounds problematic. If it’s doing this and you currently have the boot flag on the extended partition (sda4), then I suspect it will not matter what we do.

You could try this:
Fix the win7 MBR, so it just boots windows and you loose the grubmenu
Now try supergrubdisk, see if it will boot SUSE.

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I had already fixed the MBR. I just needed something that could load the OpenSuSE OS. Your solution sounds like thats what I want to do.

Thanks,
John

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