Re-Install Grub Quickly with Parted Magic

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**Fix Grub Bootloader Quickly
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If grub breaks, here is a quick and easy way to re-install it. If you have another computer to work with alongside this is a great benefit. This will put grub on the MBR of the first HD (hd0)

Step 11. Get yourself Parted Magic- Burn it to a cd. (EDIT) (I’m adding a link to download a working version of Parted Magic as the current version uses grub2 not legacy.)
DOWNLOAD THIS VERSION: **** Grub Legacy version of Parted Magic

Here is a sure way to boot Parted magic without fail (not all options for boot will work so do it this way, it’s sure to work)
Using Parted Magic an Introduction - openSUSE Forums

Step 22. Once in the live desktop start a RoxTerm, this has root power by default. I have included a video of this being done. We need to start grub, find the menu.lst file, setup grub.

You type: grub
Terminal: grub>

You type: find /boot/grub/menu.lst
Terminal: (hd0,1) (N.B. You may get different, replace your numbers in the next step)

You type: root (hd0,1) (Or different depending what previous step gave for you)
Terminal: Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

You type: setup (hd0)
Terminal: Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists … yes Computer finally returns this-- Succeeded…Done

You type: quit
reboot

Download the Video
**grub in term.mpeg.zip - Windows Live

**Grub of course is quite complicated and installs can be equally so. Which means this fix might not be suitable for your setup. Learn more about grub here: All About Grub - openSUSE

@swerdna has great help too
Linux HOWTOs and Tutorials: Suse Linux 10.0, 10.1 openSUSE 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1

[cunokyle]

Big thanks! I installed Windows 7 after openSUSE and have been struggling with a way to restore the bootloader! This did it!