How do I get my Grub menu back so I can boot into opensuse? I originally installed Opensuse 11 64bit then I wanted to see if I could install Vista and it did install on the only part of the drive that was ntsc ( I think thats what it is called) so I am thinking that this would be the windows part of the drive that opensuse automatically made but after I installed vista I lost grub so I cannot bot into opensuse so how do I repair grub?
If you used the install DVD you can do this:
Step 1 for openSUSE 11.0 - Assisted Boot into openSUSE: Insert Suse’s installation CD/DVD and reboot the computer. On the boot screen choose to “Repair Installed System”. Wait for three choices and select “Expert Tools”. Then click option “Install New Boot Loader”. Select the partition where you installed Suse (if asked). You’ll get the Grub GUI setup screen. Check under the Tab “Boot Loader Installation” that the checkmark is in “Boot from Master Boot Record” and remove any other checkmarks. Click “Finish”. Wait for message “The boot loader was installed successfully”. Click OK → Next → Finish. Ignore any error messages and reboot. That should install an elementary Grub and allow you to boot to openSUSE. So do that and it will take you to step 2
Step 2 - Reinitialise and Reinstall Grug: Once Suse has fully booted and settled down, go to Yast → System → Boot Loader. The Grub configuration screen comes up with the Tab “Section Management” activated. In the lower right is a drop-down selector labelled “Other”. Select from “Other” the option “Propose New Configuration” and then wait for Grub to analyse your partitions and display a new configuration. This may take a while. Important: When that finishes, activate the tab labelled “Boot Loader Installation” and select to “Boot from the Master Boot Record”. [Yast will often default to booting from the root or boot partition rather than from the MBR but that’s for experts only – always choose the MBR.] Then click Finish to save the changes and install the reconfigured Grub into the hard drive’s MBR. If you get a message that "The bootloader boot sector will be written to a floppy disk … don’t bother with the floppy – just click OK to proceed and install to the MBR. Reboot and you should be able to boot to openSUSE using the Grub menu screen.
That’s from here: GRUB Boot Multiboot openSUSE Windows (2000, XP, Vista) using the Grub bootloader.
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this could be a problem because I installed using the Live cd
ok I figured it out it actually was quite simple lol once I found the terminal all I had to do was
* As root (or with sudo), type grub
* When at the grub prompt, type find /boot/grub/stage2
* This will return something like (hd0,2)
* To setup the boot partition boot type root (hd0,2). This is the harddrive and the partition your linux is installed on...
* And then to configure grub type setup (hd0)
* Now you're done, so exit with quit
which I found the link to the Ubuntu forums from Grub bootloader Full tutorial
thank you for pointing me in tyhe right direction I would still be looking