<font face="tahoma,sans-serif">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:</font><div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:44 PM, John Mills <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnmills@speakeasy.net">johnmills@speakeasy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Cornelius -<br>
<br>
Thanks for the pointers. I only see a console login with the 'Recovery'<br>
package I started. SLES does have a "Yast" module: that's where I did the<br>
damage! I'll make some notes about the "sleeping" boot configuration then<br>
step back into SLES and see if I can undo the curse.<br>
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- Mills<br>
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:<br>
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> I thought the "Rescue" system has a bootloader section. You probably<br>
> need to know the devices and partitions you want to repair, such as<br>
> /dev/sda1 etc, and where to find vmlinuz and initrd (probably in<br>
> /boot).<br>
<br>
> I am not familiar with SLES, does that not have a "Yast" module? If so<br>
> you could start the dual boot from SLES. You probably still would have<br>
> to know the items mentioned above.<br>
<br>
> Hope this helps, Cor<br>
<br>
> On 1/25/11, John Mills <<a href="mailto:johnmills@speakeasy.net">johnmills@speakeasy.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">>> I was rearranging the boot setup but <OOPS/> ran my changes when booted<br>
>> into SLES. &8-( Now I can't figure out how to re-activate the dual boot.<br>
<br>
>> I can start the system from the openSuSE installation DVD in 'Rescue' mode<br>
>> and mount and chroot to its partitions, but I don't know how to re-write<br>
>> the boot block from that viewpoint. I expect I could also mount the SLES<br>
>> partition and edit the 'grub' files but I'm not sure what I need to do<br>
>> there.<br>
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