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22-Dec-2004, 10:55 AM #1
help to get back linux
Hi friends

Before I use to have WinXP and Suse linux installed in my sys. But due to some problem in WinXP, I reinstalled WinXP by formatting the windows partition. But when I was booting I lost my boot menu to linux.

I need help to recover my linux.

presently I dont have the linux cd.
Can anyone help me out to recover my boot

thx in advance
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22-Dec-2004, 12:13 PM #2
Did you overwrite your linux partition? If you didn't, you just need to reinstall your bootloader back into the MBR.
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22-Dec-2004, 12:24 PM #3
I can't tell you which boot loader you have, but if it's lilo, then download tom's rtbt disk, image a floppy with it, and use it to reinstall lilo. http://www.toms.net/rb/

If it's grub, then download 'Recovery Is possible' (RIP) from here, and use it (after chrooting into your old system) to reinstall grub.http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...looplinux/rip/
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