When we reinstall microsoft windows on a dual boot machine having Linux , The microsoft windows deletes the grub boot loader from the MBR (Master Boot Record), so there remains no way to boot your favorite Linux again. For this we need to reinstall the grub boot loader to have a boot time option to boot the selected system.
Simply follow the steps given below to reinstall the grub boot loader :
(1) Put the first CD or the DVD of SuSE 10.x in the CDROM or DVDROM or the DVD Writer.
(2) Change the boot priority of your machine to DVDROM or CDROM by pressing DEL after you power ON your machine.
(3) Once booted from the CD or DVD , select the option which says "Repair / Boot installed system" and press ENTER.
(4) After entering, the system will take some time to boot the kernel , and it may show you a menu in the text mode or gui mode , Select "boot / install the system" from the menu.
(5) If your hard drive or hard disk has Linux on more than one partition, the system will show you a list of partitions to boot from, choose your partition of Linux and press ENTER.
(6) This will boot your installed Linux :-)
(7) Once your Linux is UP and running , Open a console if you are in the GUI mode and login with the root user. Run the "yast" command. Select "System" on left hand. Under "System" on right hand select "Boot Loader".
(8) Once the "boot loader setting" page comes , look for "Other" option at the right hand bottom corner of the page.
(9) Select "Other" option on the page and choose "Propose New Configuration". Select according to your requirement the default boot operating system.
(10) Alt+f to finish the configuration and Alt+q to exit from yast screen.
(11) Reboot the system, you should now be able to see the grub loader screen on startup.
(12) Enjoy :-)
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Installing / reinstalling grub boot loader of Linux SuSE 10.0/10.2/10.3 again after installing windows on a dual boot machine
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