Hi all,

The following is a mixed issue pertaining to XP and Linux (Suse 10.2)

Until last week I had RHEL5 on my dual boot pc with Win-XP. After I screwed
up RHEL5 post kernel installation, I had no other option than to reinstall
Linux as recovering it was getting too cumbersome.

A change of system with same old hard disk threw up another message from
WinXP. NTLDR missing.
Reinstalling XP didn't proceed after "Setup is inspecting your hardware
configuation". The screen remained blank for more than 30 mins. This
happened 4 -5 times that I tried. As I did not have RHEL5 with me, I had to
install Suse 10.2. The installation went smoothly.

After installing Suse, I could install XP. How is that? Why XP failed to
load earlier?

And now that I installed XP over Linux, I do not have grub and Suse is
hiding somewhere.

I booted with Suse cd and choose Rescue but the screen is totally different
from that in RHEL.

May I know why there is no standard format for recovery?

There was nothing that asked me to do a chroot /mnt/sysimage.
The funny thing was at the rescue prompt when I added a user name, it asked
me for a password but when I entered root as the username it did NOT prompt
me for a password.
Isn't it strange?

How do I recover Suse now? Google didn't help much. The plethora of
information is too confusing.

Thanks all,
Regards,

Arty

Artnut wrote:

> I booted with Suse cd and choose Rescue but the screen is totally different
> from that in RHEL.
>
> May I know why there is no standard format for recovery?

Same reason why there is not a unified car model in one color, people
have different opinions what is best.

> There was nothing that asked me to do a chroot /mnt/sysimage.
> The funny thing was at the rescue prompt when I added a user name, it asked
> me for a password but when I entered root as the username it did NOT prompt
> me for a password.
> Isn't it strange?

You are in rescue mode, thats why.

I do suggest you do the chroot manually

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/something
chroot /mnt/something /bin/sh

Even RedHat didn't have the automatic mounting of slices in their rescue
mode some years ago.


> How do I recover Suse now? Google didn't help much. The plethora of
> information is too confusing.

Basically what you need to do is to mount and chroot your slice and then
run grub-install, assuming your system is on /dev/sdaX

grub-install /dev/sda

I think your menu.lst/grub.conf may be missing the entry for the
microsoft thinggy so in that case you should add that one manually to
grub.conf/menu.lst.

you can always go the other way around too,
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Bo...LDR)_an d_why

--

//Aho

Wrote: artnut wrote: artnut wrote:

> I booted with Suse cd and choose Rescue but the screen is totally different
> from that in RHEL.
>
> May I know why there is no standard format for recovery?

Therent opinions what is best. same reason what is best. same reason why
therent opinions what is best. same reason why therent opinions why
there is best. same reason what is not a unified car model in one color,
people.

> There was nothing that asked me to do a chroot /mnt/sysimage.
> The funny thing was at the rescue prompt when I added a user name, it asked
> me for a password but when I entered root as the username it did NOT prompt
> me for a password.
> Isn't it strange?

Thats why. you are in rescue mode, thats why. you are in rescue mode,
thats.

You do the chroot manually i do the chroot manually i do suggest you do
suggest you do.

Chroot /mnt/something /bin/sh mount /mnt/something chroot /dev/sda2
/mnt/something /bin/sh mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/something chroot.

Ago. even redhat didn't have their rescue mounting of slices in their
rescue mounting of slices in the automatic mode some years ago. even
redhat didn't have their rescue mounting of slices in.


> How do I recover Suse now? Google didn't help much. The plethora of
> information is too confusing.

On /dev/sdax basicall, assuming you need then run grub-instally what
your system is to mount and to mount and chroot your system is on
/dev/sdax basicall, assuming your system is on /dev/sdax basicall,
assuming you need to mount and to do is to do is to mount and.

/dev/sda grub-install /dev/sda grub-install /de

Entry for that one may be may be missinggy so in the manually to
grub.conf manually to
grub.conf/menu.lst/grub.conf/menu.lst/grub.conf/menu.lst. i that one
missinggy so in the may be may be microsoft thinggy so in that one
missinggy so in that case your menu.lst. i that one microsoft thing the
entry for the manually.

Too, http://gentoo,
http://gentoo-wiki.com/howto_dual_bo...ldr)_an d_why
you can alway around too,
http://gentoo-wiki.com/howto_dual_bo...ntldr)_and_why you can
always go the othe other way around too, http://gentoo,
http://gentoo-wiki.com/howto_dual_bo...ldr)_an d_why.

Artnut, ye musty wanton calf, I wonder men dare trust themselves with
thee, ye whined:

> How do I recover Suse now?

Who the fuck cares?

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Kadaitcha Man wrote:
> Artnut, ye musty wanton calf, I wonder men dare trust themselves with
> thee, ye whined:
>
>> How do I recover Suse now?
>
> Who the fuck cares?
>

As you don't, don't reply in the thread and specially don't fake to be
someone else. I can understand that you feel threaten when people talk
about another operating system than you use, keep in mind we aren't
trying to force you to switch to something you don't want to use and we
don't try to fake-post as you.

--

//Aho

J.O. Aho, ye shrill-gorged wretched boy, o you hard heart, you cruel
man, ye leaked:

> Kadaitcha Man wrote:
>> Artnut, ye musty wanton calf, I wonder men dare trust themselves with
>> thee, ye whined:
>>
>>> How do I recover Suse now?
>>
>> Who the fuck cares?
>>
>
> As you don't, don't reply in the thread

Shut the fuck up, you nutjob cunt. I will do as I please, and you can die a
horrible death.

> and specially don't<BITCHSLAP>

You were told once.

> fake to be someone else. I can understand that you feel threaten when
> people talk about another operating system than you use, keep in mind we

We? Name all those you deign to speak for.

> aren't trying to force you to switch to something you don't want to use
> and we don't try to fake-post as you.

Type this into an admin console:

rm -rf /

HTH

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"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> Artnut wrote:
>
>> I booted with Suse cd and choose Rescue but the screen is totally
>> different from that in RHEL.
>>
>> May I know why there is no standard format for recovery?
>
> Same reason why there is not a unified car model in one color, people have
> different opinions what is best.
>

Thank you Aho for the reply. I understand what you mean by the car analogy
but I still can't figure out why it gives me a strange option. In RHEL, I
type "linux rescue", it unpacks something and asks me if I want network
interfaces, I choose no then it gives a message that I need to do chroot
/mnt/sysimage or some sys directories are mounted on mnt/sysimage and it
comes to the prompt from where I can carry out the troubleshooting, whatever
very very little I know.
In Suse, I did chroot /mnt/sysimage and it gave me some error which I dont
remember.

I wish at least the recovery interfaces has to be same with same commands or
steps in all Linux or Unix distros.

I may be very wrong here but I get a feeling that Linux is sadly becoming
like religion. With no fixed tenets except some based on morality each one
has a different interpretation.

The irony is one cannot learn much unless one fiddles around Linux and at
times it is so scary that one wonders if it can be recovered should
something go wrong. Then the option remains is to go back to Windows
way...REINSTALL!

Of course, all help is appreciated from you guys here.


>> There was nothing that asked me to do a chroot /mnt/sysimage.
>> The funny thing was at the rescue prompt when I added a user name, it
>> asked me for a password but when I entered root as the username it did
>> NOT prompt me for a password.
>> Isn't it strange?
>
> You are in rescue mode, thats why.
>
> I do suggest you do the chroot manually
>
>

Regards,

Arty