[physician]

I just reloaded win2k on my sons computer. It was dual boot with win2k and Suse Linux. I have the suse disk. I know windows has erased my dual boot settings. Can anyone tell me simply how to resetup my dual boot? Thanks...doc

[dago]

I know windows has erased my dual boot settings

Listen, this is very complicated when happen, but is important to know the cause, how did it happen? Antivirus?

Try to be verbose, as much detail you provide as much we can help you.

Give me one favor, boot the Suse cd 1, select "Rescue System", choose your language, when login appears type "root".

I suppose your hard drive is IDE, right?
Then, post what you see executing "fdisk -l /dev/hda"

[Whiteskin]

If you can remember which boot loader is used this can be simple. I'm not sure about suse, but most distros use grub. If there is a file called grub.conf in /boot/grub then you can just start up the grub command prompt and do the following: (the grub bit is just a prompt, similar to the bash $

 grub> root (hd0,0)

(I'm asumming here that linux is the first drive, first partition. Though I'm not sure if partition makes a diffrence)

grub> setup (hd0)

If there is NO grub.conf, then it is likely you are running lilo (Remember any lilo coming when booting suse the first time?). To reinstall lilo, just type in 'lilo' at the prompt, and it should install using your old settings.

Should you make a mistake here, then you can restart by using the 2000/XP disk to fixmbr.