Dual boot doesnt register

TheLastWarlock · Post by **TheLastWarlock** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:27 am

Ok so Ive been dual booting xp and OpenSUSE for the last few weeks and everything has been fine.
but now after i was forced to reinstall xp, The computer doesn't recognize i have two OS installed and it just boots up xp.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

Post by **bicostp** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:40 am

Reinstalling Linux is the easiest solution. One way or another, you have to reinstall GRUB. (Always make a backup of GRUB before you install any other OS.)

Windows overwrites the MBR by default to automatically point to NTLDR.

TheLastWarlock · Post by **TheLastWarlock** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:43 am

Oh ok thats what ill do then

is there any way to back up the data i have saved on the linux partition even though i cant access linux or will i have to lose that data?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:14 am

Get a live CD, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, whatever. Then google, reinstall grub. They walk you through it. It's not hard I did it recently as I reinstalled the windows directory.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:34 am

TheLastWarlock wrote:is there any way to back up the data i have saved on the linux partition even though i cant access linux or will i have to lose that data?

You can get this utility to access ext2/3 partitions from within Windows.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:15 pm

You can use a live CD to access the linux partition.

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sudo mkdir /mnt/linuxhd

sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda# /mnt/linuxhd

Replace the # symbol with the partition number that your OpenSuSE is on.

TheLastWarlock · Post by **TheLastWarlock** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:13 pm

Thanks Everyone for your replies

I have successfully backed up and reinstalled linux so everything works fine!