Hi guys I am very new to Linux and have managed to kill it with in 5 minutes of installing it, I have installed opensuse 10.1 on my system and have a boot loader problem, I have 2 hard disks in the system in the following layout

Disk 1 40gb with windows xp installed NTFS
Disk 2 with 4 partitions listed below
Partition 1 with windows XP installed again NTFS(testing installation for work use).
Partition 2 storage only NTFS
Partition 3 with linux
Partition 4 is swap partition

I installed suse on partition 3 and put the swap on 4 and this all worked fine, grub was the boot loader by default, after installation all os’s were showing correctly but it would not boot into either of the xp installations, I changed the boot loader from grub to lilo in suse saved the settings, upon rebooting I found that linux had gone from the boot loader list, I have both windows installation and fail safe listed but no linux. Although linux has gone from the list I can now boot into both copies of xp. Is it possible to edit the boot loader to include the linux installation from either fail safe or the recovery on the CD?


Any help would be great.

Ian

Just enter as linux single user using the first CD and post whats written in /etc/grub.conf file or /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

Dear Hundleton1

Well. I use GRUB, and I recommend you to use it too. It more up to date then LILO. I can write how do I start my WinXP. Try it:

title Microsoft Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

title Microsoft Windows XP (devel)
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

Add these lines under the linux boot section (you will find it) in the menu.lst file, which can be found in /boot/grub
I hope it will work.
Good luck.
(You need to copy those, in the way it is written there, I wrote it for you)