greetings everyone,

previously I have successfully dual boot installed xp and suse 10.2 in my laptop with grub.
some thing happened to windows so I repaired xp.
now I don’t get grub at first and windows boots up.
no sign of grub, that can give me option of dual boot.
linux is still there.
cause when I tried to reinstall linux with suse 10.2 cd. it prompted me and successfully boot it from hard drive.
but still no sign of grub...
can any one please guide me how can I restore my grub and make it appear before windows does.....
life has become so frustrating without linux + c.

I guess the issue is just that Windows re-writes the MBR. I don't quite follow why suse didn't put grub in the MBR, and I'm a bit confused as to how things stand from your description.

So, what I would do is either boot suse and reinstall grub with

grub-install /dev/sda (assuming sda is the correct device), or if you can't boot suse, boot the dvd into rescue mode (I guess it has a rescue/repair boot option), or download a live CD of some kind, then mount the hard disk partition with sus on it (say /mnt) then

grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

thanks bro.
i will try it let you know the effect....

/sbin/grub-install <hdd>