Hello everyone,
I have a laptop that wanted to try out opensuse on an external hard drive. I stalled opensuse however it installed grub in the mbr on my primary hard drive. Do you know if there is a way to remove grub from the mbr? Is there a way to restore the old mbr? I didn’t back it up beforehand.
On 06/15/2013 05:46 PM, GeorgeF1234 wrote:
> Do you know if there is a way to remove grub from the mbr?
> Is there a way to restore the old mbr? I didn’t back it up
> beforehand.
-=WELCOME=- new poster… (unfortunately in a pickle)
backups are a wonderful thing. without one we need some more info to
know which way to head:
what version of openSUSE did you install
what was in the MBR before you wiped it out?
is there a file in /boot named backup_mbr, about 512 bites and
dated the day you installed openSUSE? (if so, that is probably a
backup copy that openSUSE made of your MBR…so, don’t mess with it)
and, please tell us what other operating systems might be on that
system…
George sir, you have not provided enough info to help you out. We don’t know the make and model of the computer. We don’t know (although I feel it safe to presume) if you had Windows on previously. We don’t know what you did with the partitioning.
To simply answer the question, yes we could do that, but with out the above information, it’s like shooting in the dark. It might work, and if it does it would simply be because we made some assumptions that just happen to be correct. More than likely though, any advise given at this point would be wrong since we don’t have enough info.