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

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?

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

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.