[ale] Recovering dual boot on installed systems

[Cornelis van Dijk]

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:
> ALErs -
>
> I had a working dual boot installation of openSuSE-11.3 and SuSE Linux
> Enterprise Server (i.e., Novell) on two disks in the same system. The SLES
> setup went on first and its 'grub' knows only itself. The openSuSE 'grub'
> knows of both installations and was the basis of the dual-boot
> configuration.
>
> 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.
>
> Could anyone give me a pointer or lead on this?
>
> TIA.
>
>   - Mills
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