Hi!

I'm a newbie!!!

I did a Suse installation on an existing Win XP PC.

It passed ok and it both appears on the booting menu (Windows XP and Suse).

By mistake I tried to do a new Suse installation on same PC.

Now the Windows XP doesn't appear on the Boot Menu.

I don't know how to: access, edit and repair the problematic file\s.

Please give detailed instructions.

TIA

Nanu

I will guess that you installed SUSE the second time on the same partition as the first--or one a new one. What may have happened is that the second install failed to add Windows to the boot menu. I also assume that you have at least one working SUSE system.

Boot into SUSE and do the following (in a terminal):

su ....#to become root
fdisk -l ....#post the results here
more /boot/grub/menu.lst ....#Look for an entry for Windows, and post here (not the whole file)

If there is no entry for Windows, then you will need to edit menu.lst to add one. Assuming that Windows is on the first partition, the entry should look like this:

Thanks!

I' am too new to this. Is my first day i touch SUSE!!!

Please tell me how to change directories like in old MS-DOS, how to open and edit a file...and how to quit.

Where can I find more info about this?

TIA

Nanu

Based upon your last reply, I'm assuming you can boot to Opensuse? Boot up, open a terminal (the icon which looks like a monitor either on desktop or in taskbar) and log on as root by typing: su, you will get a prompt for a password, enter that. Then type, fdisk -l, (lower case Letter L) and post the output. You can open your file manager, the image which looks like a house and browse to the /boot/grub/menu.lst directory (root again) or you can do this in a terminal: cat /boot/grub/menu.lst. This command should display your menu.lst file. Post the output here. You won't need to post all the info at the beginning of the file with hash marks (#) to the left.

Thanks!

Nanu

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