Windows installation erased linux boot sector?

xelt · 05-01-2005, 12:41 PM

Hi everyone, this is my problem; my brother installed windows on disk with linux and grub boot-loader... My qestion is simple, is there any way how to run linux now? it looks like windows erased boot sector and made its own.
thx for answers

PeteBourner · 05-01-2005, 01:13 PM

Yes, Windows does just overwrite the boot sector - it rather arrogantly assumes that if you have Windows you don't want anything else

Fortunately, all you should need to do is boot from your Linux installation CD/floppy/whatever and as it too reinstall the boot-loader (how you do this depends upon your distro).

Or, you could boot from a LiveCD linux (e.g. Knoppix/Mepis/Ubuntu/lots more ) and chroot into your installed linux root partition, then run grub to reinstall it.

xelt · 05-01-2005, 01:22 PM

Thx for reply, i use suse 9.2 and i think there is no possibility of installing grub; Live-CD possibility is fine, thx for that.. ill just have to download fuc*ing 700 mb

masand · 05-01-2005, 01:22 PM

check this out

http://govinda.no-ip.com/linux_iips/bootloader.html

regards

xelt · 05-01-2005, 01:24 PM

thanx masand,this is really nice paper !

masand · 05-01-2005, 01:35 PM

do tell me if it could solve ur problem

i wrote it just now ,becoz a lot of users face this problem

regards