Hi All,

I'm running a dual boot system of W2K Pro and SuSE Linux 8.1 Pro.

I had to reformat my Main HDD and the drive letter changed from "C" to "F", and now Grub doesn't show up at all when I initially boot up to allow me to select which Operating System to Boot from. I know Grub is there, I just don't know how to access it to re-associate it to my Windows OS.

Could someone please enlighten me as to how to straighten this out???

Grub does not have a concept of C: or F: or anything like that. The only thing it knows about are partitions. So formatting the partition shoudn't have changed anything.

However, you said your drive letter changed from C: to F:. Am I right in assuming you changed your main Windows hard drive. In other words, you now have a new C: drive you boot from? If you did, then that's the problem. Grub was installed in the boot block of your OLD C: drive. To get the dual boot back, you'll have to re-install Grub onto your NEW C: drive. To be technically correct, you need to install Grub onto the drive you boot from (which is probably your new C.

To do that, you'll need your boot disk to get into Linux. IThen you'll need to verify your grub.conf file: make sure all the partitions for your new drive match up correctly. Then, I believe the command is 'grub-install <drive>' as in grub-install /dev/hda.

Hi Dark_Helmet,

Thanks for your reply............

Forgat that Linux doesn't refer to drive letters (it's a Windows thing)LOL..........

Yes I did reformat my main HDD and thats when the &^%$ hit the fan......

I'll give what you suggested a shot this weekend and post back................

Thanks again...........