Re: [OxLUG] Booting OpenSuse

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:34:52 +0100
Jason Field <jason@jasonfield.com> wrote:

> On 29 July 2010 17:59, Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I have OpenSuse-11.2 installed on my old machine, however the
> > boot blocks got overwritten by another OS and I can't boot into
> > Linux anymore. I haven't used Linux for years, how do I go about
> > booting the system or restoring boot blocks?
> >
> >
> You'll probably need to look at installing GRUB on the system.
> SystemRescueCD[1] is probably good place to start - that should let
> you boot and then install GRUB.
>
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason

OK no worries, I managed to boot into live CD, mount linux partition,
and copy the files I wanted to keep. I've reinstalled everything with
OpenSuse-11.3