[lug] error loading operating system

[Chuck Morrison]

On that same line of thought, did your opensuse install to the mbr or
the first partition ? My guess is it needs to be on the mbr.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Jeff Schroeder <jeff at zingstudios.com> wrote:
> John:
>
>> I just installed the latest openSuse on my desktop and when I reboot
>> it gives me "Error loading operating system"  after the "Verifying
>> DMI Pool Data ......."
>
> IIRC, that message is from the Windows bootloader.  It's looking for
> your old instance of XP and can't find it, so it dies.
>
> Perhaps in your installation, the bootloader didn't get updated properly
> with GRUB?  I'm not a SuSE guy so I don't know much about the
> installation, but I wonder if there's a way you could boot in rescue
> mode and just install the bootloader, without redoing the entire
> installation process.
>
> HTH,
> Jeff
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