On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Richard Smoot wrote:
> I was trying to install SUSE 10.2 Alpha 1 on my wife's laptop.
> Open SUSE said to install it in text mode since there was a problem
> with the graphical installer. When I booted CD-1, I never saw an option
> for text mode. How do you do a text mode install with SUSE 10.2?
> The graphical install seemed to be working, so I continued.
> WARNING! if you do that it will trash your partition table. Is there a way
> to fix my partition table without having to reinstall my Win 2000?
If it just made W2K unbootable, it didn't hose the partition table, just
didn't add it to the list the bootloader maintains. Just add it to
/etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub.list (I think) depending on which you have.
(You should ask someone who knows what (s)he's doing WRT grub.) With lilo,
you have to run /sbin/lilo afterwards; with grub I don't think you have to
do anything.
Basically, all your stuff is still there; with an appropriate bootdisk you
can still boot from it. It's probably easier, if you have a W2K rescue CD,
to "fix" the MBR from there and then fix lilo/grub for real so you can boot
either one.
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