BOOT Menu ---" Xp and Fedora core 4 and SuSE 9"-----

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i had insatlled winxp pro. after that i installed SuSE 9.1 personal edition.
I wud get a SuSE interface asking which to start. all was fine.
After xp crashed, i installed it again. But since then no OS option came during boot.
Today i installd Fedora Core 4 ( SuSE still there but no access to it).
And now i get to choose only between Fedora and Win XP.
Plz some one tell me how to fix this prob. I wanna hv an option for SuSE, Fedora, as well as Xp. How can this be done ??????

try this: Boot with ur Widows Boot Disk, type:

fdisk /mbr
fixmbr ----> Then Choose Yes

i think this shud solve the problem... thou not sure

the thing that happened is when u installed xp ur mbr got overwritten hence no choice
now that u installed fedora , it has detected xp and hence theres a dual boot option
NOW what u have to do is EITHER reinstall suse ...
OR boot from a live cd and then give the parameters to boot from the "suse" partition
once ur in suse ull have to reinstall grub from that
overwrite the mbr ..and this time u should get all 3 as a choice

ofcourse this wont work if u have replaced suse wit fedora
since this problem can be fixed thru linux im moving it to open source for more advanced troubleshooting

There is a simple way..Copy the three files from the boot folder in suse system map,vmlinuz and initrd and paste them in the boot folder of fedora.Then edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf ..I f you give me your hardisk info I can give you the lines to add to your grub.conf.