Problems with booting linux/windows

[jimbo1999]

I installed suse on my windows 2000 system a few months ago.

The installation was on a seperate hard drive to the win 2000 files and everything seemed ok, with the boot menu appearing when the pc was loaded up.

Today i switched on my PC and all i can load on boot is the grub command line. Is there any way to load suse/windows from here? I've tried booting with a dos floppy to load windows but for some reason i cannot find my main hard drive using c: (or any other letter) at the command prompt.

Any ideas as to what's happened or how to resolve it would be appreciated. I apologise for being lame but I really am stumped with this.

James.

[Icarus]

Sounds like you lost the drives somehow...check in the BIOS an make sure that they are recognized.
It sounds like the MBR is still intact since you get the GRUB> prompt, maybe the drive SuSE is on is gone?

[jimbo1999]

The drives are still there (according to both bios and FDisk), but the only partitions that have letters allocated to them are two logical partitions on my secondary hard drive that have nothing on them.

Anyone any ideas how I can assign a drive letter to a logical partition without changing the contents?

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by jimbo1999

Anyone any ideas how I can assign a drive letter to a logical partition without changing the contents?

Sorry for the delay in replying. I was hoping another JL member would be able to help out as I don't want to reply to all the threads here since I do not have the time nor the energy.

Is this a Linux or Windows partition? Linux filesystems do not use drive letters.

[cybertron]

Have you tried typing "linux" at the grub prompt? That's how you would normally start Linux in this situation and you don't say that you've done that yet. Didn't want to assume that you already had done that.:)