:’(I had a running dual boot SUSE/XP installed. Unfortunately I had to wipeout the MBR after updating the XP system recovery forcing booting from the hidden service partition!
I could reinstall the MBR for windows but not for SUSE.
When I boot with the SUSE CD
Repair installation display “Error” after loading!
Installation mode: boot installed system display “error”.
Using The expert Partitioner (custom partitioning) from the clean installation menu All Linux, NTFS extended partitions are dispaly correctly.
But all Suse Mount point are missing excepted for the swap partition!
How to reinstall correct mount points and dual boot MBR WITHOUT deleting the existing installations ?
Thanks
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MKLinuxOS …HowTos and News in a neat way.: HOWTO: restore GRUB after XP/Vista install
There are other ways to do it (some arguably simpler, though you have to enter some precisely-worded commands at a terminal prompt). Download the Supergrub boot disk and burn it to CD under Windows.
Using the Supergrub boot disk, you can boot into Suse. Once you get there, run Yast -> System -> Boot Loader. In the “other” menu at the bottom of the window, there’s an option to rebuild the MBR.
That should fix you right up. The important thing is not to worry. Your Suse is still there and you CAN get it back. 
In general to repair your system you “fsck” file system check, root partition and any others, check the information present.
Then re-install GRUB to MBR, or in it’s own partition if you use MBR generic boot code and set an active primary partition.
There’s lots of threads, and info on how to re-install GRUB MBR, so I won’t repeat it.
But if your root partition is /dev/sda5 (first logical parition in the DOS extended partition) then :
fsck -n /dev/sda5
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
Then lets you browse the root filesystem from rescue environment.
You should find your 10.3 install media, gives you a root console prompt via CNTRL-ALT-F2, where you can use the CLI.
If you only feel comfortable in GUI, then I’d use a Live CD, or specialised System Rescue, to sort out the boot problems. Distrowatch has info on that sort of thing.
What you generally do not have to do, unlike Windows, is re-install to fix up and recover the system.
Many thanks
By chance I could boot SUSE using a menu command and selecting the dev/xxx after booting with the installation CD.
Yast partitioner results
dev/sda HD Drive
dev/sda1 NTFS (windows C:)
dev/sda2 Extended
dev/sda3 NTFS (Windows D:)
dev/sda4 Linux native (not used/not installed)
dev/sda5 Vendior diag (XP service partition)
dev/sda6 Linux swap
dev/sda7 FAT16 (50MB part. used to test bootmagic!)
dev/sda8 Linux native (the one that is working)
Mount Mount by
dev/sda6 Linux swap swap
dev/sda7 FAT16 / /
dev/sda8 Linux native / /
Two / mount is it correct?
But the hard drive file system display
dev/sda7 as the used linux partition when the partitioner display it as dev/sda8 ?
currently boot loader show for the default boot
Section name:openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.19-0.1
resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent showopts
root device = /dev/sda8
Because the partition dev/sda7 was created after the initial SUSE installation
What option shoud I used?
Restore MBR of Hard disk option
Propose new configuration
or should I leave it like this?
I want to make sure I’ll have correct boot record before re-installing a dual boot and shutdown SUSE
PS you can reinstall a Windows MBR using the recovery console CLI without having to fully reinstall windows (at least!)