Suse 9.1 booting problem
 

Hello,



Please help with this if you can as I have been feeling increasingly unhappy for two months now:


soon after I installed Suse 9.1, I reinstalled windows and it deleted Suse's MBR path. I don't have the first installation CD anymore, so how do I boot? I tried Knopix but dont know what commands to write after I choose the Rescue mode. I also tried downloading the first install CD, but it is so hard to find. All I find is an iso that I already tried and dont know how to make do it.

So I got this Suse living within my computer that I cannot get to.

Please please help me,


me.

From your rescue environment, find your boot and root partitions (if they are different) mount the root under /mnt and if there is a boot mount that under /mnt/boot.

Run grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/hd? (where ? is the letter of your drive.)

You may have to set up your MS boot stanza in menu.lst

The boot ISO (FTP installation CD) can be found here:
ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/boot/boot.iso

This helps you to boot into your installed SUSE (Select 'Boot from harddisk'). There you can easily run Yast -> System -> Boot Loader Configuration to install grub again.

With the SUSE 9.1 Personal ISO you can also use the repair funtion:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/0...od_91pers.html

To re-install grub, this link may also help:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/0..._overview.html

Here is what happened
 

Thank you two for your advice


I downloaded the iso that you sent me a link to (turned out to be the one i already had), and as before, when I turn on my comp, if I choose boot from hard disk of course it boots Windows right away, no choice given. If I choose rescue, it loads stuff and then prompts me for a password like so:


Rescue login:

Password:


I dont know which pass it wants. I changed the root pass once because some guy was trying to mess with my computer remotely. So I am not sure of the password. Probably thats what it wants, because it keeps on telling me it is wrong. I also have a normal user account the password for which I do remember though probably that won't help much (i tried that, also no success).


Do you have any other suggestions I could go by?

Change root password?
 

Uhm, okaz dont bother to answer the last one.


I got into my Suse by the Manual Installation option on the boot.iso CD.

I opened YAST and it asked me for my root password. I tried like 20 times to guess it and I could not. So I need to reset the root pass. If someone could help with that, that would be great,


me

It woke up!!
 

Hehe,



the little rat starting showing up for startup again!!!


Thanks people!! I was starting to think it is hopeless and I needed to uninstall (be glad I dont because imagine the millions of questions I would harrass zou with!!)


So I actually was able to guess mz root pass, and after the usual amateur goofing around in YAST and pointless reboots, I bumped into the edit option where it FORCES zou to reinstall grub.


Life is gooood.


:D