What do you do if you screw up your boot loader

Jackattack511 · 12-20-03, 08:12 PM

Thankfully I can still access my windows hard drive, but my linux one is another story. I was trying to get suse 9.0 to recconize my other hard drive and give me the option of booting from it. It would have been there, but I removed the hard drive, just to be sure I didn't accidently format it in the process of installing linux. I go into the YaST configurator and in to the boot loader options and fiddle around a little bit, and let me tell you I wish I would have just stayed away.

Now when I boot i get to grub, but when I click on linux (to boot to it) it gives me an error. I can go to the command line of grub or edit the command there already, but what ever I try I come up with nothing. If I could just get back into linux I can restore everything to what it was. Do you need more information, or do you guys have any Ideas. Thanks in advance. It pisses me off becuase I just got the nvidia drivers working today, and now I screw it up again.

TheOneKEA · 12-21-03, 06:41 AM

Please give details about your entire hard disk layout - it sounds like you've got GRUB and Win32 living on one hard disk and SuSE 9 living on another hard disk, and after you added a third hard disk you fUx0r3d the boot loader and can't boot SuSE anymore. The most likely thing is that GRUB is looking in the wrong place.

SuLinUX · 12-21-03, 08:55 AM

It's ok he's sorted it at Linuxforum.

12-20-03, 08:12 PM	#1
Jackattack511 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 2	What do you do if you screw up your boot loader Thankfully I can still access my windows hard drive, but my linux one is another story. I was trying to get suse 9.0 to recconize my other hard drive and give me the option of booting from it. It would have been there, but I removed the hard drive, just to be sure I didn't accidently format it in the process of installing linux. I go into the YaST configurator and in to the boot loader options and fiddle around a little bit, and let me tell you I wish I would have just stayed away. Now when I boot i get to grub, but when I click on linux (to boot to it) it gives me an error. I can go to the command line of grub or edit the command there already, but what ever I try I come up with nothing. If I could just get back into linux I can restore everything to what it was. Do you need more information, or do you guys have any Ideas. Thanks in advance. It pisses me off becuase I just got the nvidia drivers working today, and now I screw it up again.

12-21-03, 06:41 AM	#2
TheOneKEA Fifteen-K Saiyan Bastard Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Somewhere in England, waiting for ROTK and drooling over the A64 3000+ Posts: 417	Please give details about your entire hard disk layout - it sounds like you've got GRUB and Win32 living on one hard disk and SuSE 9 living on another hard disk, and after you added a third hard disk you fUx0r3d the boot loader and can't boot SuSE anymore. The most likely thing is that GRUB is looking in the wrong place. __________________ /me \/\/@\|\\|t5 $$$$$ F0r @\|\\| u65r 3\|33t G@/\/\1\|\\|G r1G SCREW THE ADS! http://adblock.mozdev.org/ Proud user of teh Fox of Fire - Mozilla Firefox 0.8 Registered Linux User #289618

12-21-03, 08:55 AM	#3
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