I’ve a partitioned hard-drive with Windows Vista but with linux as the default. On Windows, we changed one segment of the D (sharing) drive from FAT32 to NTFS to use with Windows, but on re-booting the laptop, the screen is now showing a grub> command, and we don’t have any knowledge of open Suse (or linux in general) to get this into the screen where we can choose between open Suse, open Suse failsafe or Windows Vista.
Anyone able to help, please? Have we totally screwed up my laptop?! I have an open Suse 10.2 disk and an 11.1 disk.
Thanks for your help…
Weaver Stacey
I’ve a partitioned hard-drive with Windows Vista but with linux as the default. On Windows, we changed one segment of the D (sharing) drive from FAT32 to NTFS to use with Windows, but on re-booting the laptop, the screen is now showing a grub> command, and we don’t have any knowledge of open Suse (or linux in general) to get this into the screen where we can choose between open Suse, open Suse failsafe or Windows Vista.
Anyone able to help, please? Have we totally screwed up my laptop?! I have an open Suse 10.2 disk and an 11.1 disk.
Thanks for your help…
Weaver Stacey
Grub depends on partitions numbers staying the same. Removing and adding in a partition might change the partition numbers. Here is an article that might help you out:
Re-Install Grub Quickly with Parted Magic
Thank You,
If James’s method fails, then post back here and confirm you have the DVD install disk and that you have installed openSUSE version 10.2 (which you can boot from a 10.2 install DVD) – and we could proceed that way (but any luck and you’ve already fixed it).
WeaverStacey wrote:
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> Anyone able to help, please? Have we totally screwed up my laptop?!
maybe yes, maybe no…depends…
which did you install 10.2 or 11.1 (by the way, 10.2 is so old it has
not been supported in a couple of years, at least…and, 11.1 is
scheduled to go unsupported before summer…so . . .)
if you had a successful install of either that was capable of dual
booting and THEN, in Windows moved partitions around or changed their
properties (from fat to nt, say) then you probably can recover by
booting from the SAME install medium you used for the successful
install and when the first screen comes up offering to (say) “Install”
or “Boot from hard drive” or “Memory Test”, select “Repair Installed
System” or maybe it is more like “Rescue System” or i’m not sure i
remember what it was…
BUT before you do that: do you have photos, music, letters, emails etc
etc etc on the Windows partitions which you really really need to keep
safe? if you do, did you BEFORE you began installing Linux make an
off-machine backup of all your good stuff?
if you didn’t you should have, because any hard disk can fail at any
second, and any partitioner can stumble enough to wipe out everything…
so, do the “Repair Installed System” after you are sure your stuff is
safe…how to do that with a windows machine i’m not sure, maybe
boot from your Windows install disk and ask IT to rescue your
system…ask a windows expert (there are some around here sometimes)…
or, if you already have a good backup then you have little to lose by
letting the install disk’s repair/rescue try…
but, you might wanna wait around for that windows expert to chime in.
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
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