windows 7 overwritten my opensuse bootloader

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Hi.
i was using opensuse 11.1 and yesterday i installed windows 7 RC 7100 and it has overwritten grub loader.now i can not boot into opensuse. what should i do?

thanks

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autofocus adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 18 May 2009 00:56 to write:

>
> Hi.
> i was using opensuse 11.1 and yesterday i installed windows 7 RC 7100
> and it has overwritten grub loader.now i can not boot into opensuse.
> what should i do?
>
> thanks
>
>

Boot with the SuSE cd/dvd and either see if the repair section will fix it
or boot the installed system with it and use YaST to re-install the
bootloader.

HTH

Mark

Nullus in verba
Nil illigitimi carborundum

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I had the same issue and I could never get the repaired grub to work correctly. It has been frustrating because it was working fine till I upgraded my beta to the release candidate and got the grub written over.

-Marc

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Ooh boy you should install first win7,winxp or win2000 and after linux(suse,mandriva…) that should be the way:).

autofocus,
you have no choice to reinstall win7 first and after wards Linux (Suse)

Good Luck

Mike;)

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NOT TRUE !!! You can install in any order, just be aware that you will have to repair GRUB.
You could say it’s less tricky, but it’s definitely not true, that you annot install anything after a openSUSE install. More easy does not mean the only way.

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I had the same problem, but I put in the suse cd. I clicked repair, then expert, then bootloader, It re-installed the grub. Now the grub loads but theres no option to load to windows(xp). My question is after that how do u configure bootloader to load windows
?

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OK this is done fairly painlessly. FAIRLY Since you have OpenSUSE working in grub you can use these steps.

First you need to know the partitions:

fdisk -l

Then with the partitions listed out edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst

>su -
# kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst

Now my example will be differnt then yours. I have Windows 7 on partitions 1 and 2
OpenSUSE is on partition 6
Swap is on partition 5
Home is on partition 7

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Jun  1 03:21:24 EDT 2009
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500410AS_5VM0TB2D-part6    repair=1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500410AS_5VM0TB2D-part5 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a
    initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500410AS_5VM0TB2D-part6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x31a
    initrd /boot/initrd

**title Windows 7 RC
    rootnoverify (hd0,1)
    chainloader +1**

Change only the Windows section (Bold for emphasis. Since Windows is on partition 1 and 2 I pointed to the second one by the (hd0, 1) This should be the only variable you will have to mess with.

Save your menu.lst and you should be fine for Windows.

Hope this helps.

-Marc