Hi everyone, first post.
I have little experience with Linux, took a course, read bulletproof linux. That was several years ago. My friend convinced me to set up opensuse kde with him, so I did.
Set it up a few days ago on my semi-new Hitachi 1TB drive. XP was installed first, cloned from the previous (failing) drive, and took me forever to get it working.
It was set up as:
Hitachi HD:
1st part: XP (250gb)
2nd Part: opensuse system
3rd Part: opensuse swap
4th Part: opensuse data
(2/3 may be swapped)
I still had 600GB unpartitioned and went to add a new 250GB partition via windows xp disk manger.
Next thing I know, disk manager freezes and errors. I reboot for other reasons, and am greeted by grub (never used it before) stating …well stating nothing.
I tried the opensuse install DVD repair option and got corrupted video at first. Then I tried safe settings for booting the installer.
I’m now in the YaST2 repair manager.
I tried to recover partitions, but it’s locked to scan only Partition 1, which is my XP partition. It says no valid linux root partitions exist.
um… help?
I also tried loading the linux root partition with grub (didn’t know the namescheme for the HD’s, but I think it’s \dev\sda for HD0), no dice. I can’t seem to find any hard drives through grub, but I’m unfamiliar with it.
My goal is to get my xp back up and running. My guess is that XP tried to edit the partition table and screwed up something.
The partition listing through YaST2 partmanager shows all my partitions.
A good walkthrough would be great too, but at the moment I’m just going :sarcastic: Really? It was that easy to annihilate all my bootable systems?
I could also nuke the linux partition and use XP’s recovery console and fixboot, then worry about the linux later. I haven’t gotten it set up completely yet.
Thanks in advance
-William