Hi All,
Just a newbie here, but I had the following:
single boot Win XP. Then, blue-screen of death no boot up.
I installed Opensuse Linux to see if I could rescue the system.
Figured it was a master boot record problem. Tried everything but did not have a Win XP resuce CD.
I got an XP install CD from a friend, brought up the rescue screen, did the "fixmbr" command that's supposed to work, It did not.
Then, trid a bunch of grub solutions. No joy.
Finally, with Gparted (free/ semi free) boot CD, I did a disk analysis and my disk was definitely bad.
So, rescued files using Gparted by copying to other drives.
Then, since I was buy a new RAM drive, I also got Windows 7 Home.
Installed Windows 7, but lost my Linux install.
Rebooted with Opensuse install CD, then lost the WIndows boot.
Look here (Tom's) for a solution. Unfurtunately, Opensuse does not use "update-grub" (at least not with the new grub2 loader).
Found this command elsewhere: (must be super user)
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
then rebooted.
My dboot is now back!!
cheers.
rebooted