1. Boot from the opensuse CD/DVD, then from the first menu start the "Rescue System".
2. At the rescue login prompt type:
root
3. Press Enter
4. To see a list of all of the available partitions type: fdisk -l
5. Press Enter
6. Identify the root partition for openSUSE
7. Mount the root partition. For example if /dev/sda6 is your root partition you would type: mount -t ext2 -o rw,dev /dev/sda6 /mnt
8. Press Enter
9. Load the GRUB prompt by typing: grub
10. Press Enter.
11. This will load a grub prompt. Type: find /boot/grub/stage1 12. Press Enter. You'll get a response like "(hd0)" or in my case "(hd0,3)". Use whatever your computer spits out for the following lines.
13. Type: root (hd0,3)
14. Press Enter
15. Type setup (hd0,3)
16. Press Enter. This is key. Other instructions say to use "(hd0)", and that's fine if you want to write GRUB to the MBR. If you want to write it to your linux root partition, then you want the number after the comma, such as "(hd0,3)".
17. Type: quit
18. Press Enter
19. Type: reboot
20. Press Enter and you're done!
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