[ale] Recovering dual boot on installed systems

[Jim Philips]

I had similar problems a couple of months back. I resolved them with
Rescatux, which helps you to recover your Grub configuration. You can find
it here:

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/rescatux/

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:44 PM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> Cornelius -
>
> Thanks for the pointers. I only see a console login with the 'Recovery'
> package I started. SLES does have a "Yast" module: that's where I did the
> damage! I'll make some notes about the "sleeping" boot configuration then
> step back into SLES and see if I can undo the curse.
>
>  - Mills
>
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
>
> > I thought the "Rescue" system has a bootloader section. You probably
> > need to know the devices and partitions you want to repair, such as
> > /dev/sda1 etc, and where to find vmlinuz and initrd (probably in
> > /boot).
>
> > I am not familiar with SLES, does that not have a "Yast" module? If so
> > you could start the dual boot from SLES. You probably still would have
> > to know the items mentioned above.
>
> > Hope this helps, Cor
>
> > On 1/25/11, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> >> I was rearranging the boot setup but <OOPS/> ran my changes when booted
> >> into SLES. &8-( Now I can't figure out how to re-activate the dual boot.
>
> >> I can start the system from the openSuSE installation DVD in 'Rescue'
> mode
> >> and mount and chroot to its partitions, but I don't know how to re-write
> >> the boot block from that viewpoint. I expect I could also mount the SLES
> >> partition and edit the 'grub' files but I'm not sure what I need to do
> >> there.
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