Grub gone!! How to recover grub with live cd??????

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Hi,
I installed 11.1 yesterday with gnome live cd. My grub included windows as opensuse which was fine. However, I have XP and VISTA at the same time and grub added 2 elements in the list. There is however 1 element needed, which chains to the vista bootloader. So yesterday I deleted this item in yast-bootloader.

Then this morning I turn on my pc and nothing happens. The grub doesn’t show up so I can boot into nothing. How Can I reinstall grub??? I do not have the dvd image. Is it really necessary to download it? Is there a way to fix it with the live cd?

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You will find the easiest method is just to boot the live cd and re-install

You need the DVD to repair grub.
(well there is another way - but unless you are CLI proficient re-install is easy for you)

Read this
GRUB Boot Multiboot openSUSE Windows (2000, XP, Vista) using the Grub bootloader.

It will help you configure grub properly if it’s not working after you re-install suse.

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They really should place the repair system in the live cd’s as well. Reinstall will eventually end up in the same grub loss as well so I’ll download dvd.

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I’m not sure you can use the dvd repair for a cd install

Loss of Grub is likely user error. No offense.

If you want to go CLI
GRUB bootloader - Full tutorial
GNU GRUB Manual 0.97

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Really the only thing I did was this in yast-bootloader:

Original:

  1. Opensuse 11.1
  2. Windows 1 (-> = vista bootloader, boots vista and xp)
  3. Windows 2 (-> deleted)
  4. Opensuse failsafe

Changed to:

  1. Opensuse 11.1
  2. Windows (renamed windows 1)
  3. Opensuse failsafe

Finished and exit yast. No problems were reported, so I think this is a bug in yast-bootloader.

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Fixed it from live cd with these commands:

find /boot/grub/stage1
returns hd(0,5)
root (hd0,5)
setup (hd0)
quit

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hey i have a similar problem could you tell me step by step how you fixed it? i tried copying and pasting that command but it did nothing.

Thanks