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openSuSE 11.1 -install new boot loader- answered wrong root partition -what did it do exactly? Dec 9th 2012, 14:59 Using the install new bootloader utility from the expert repair tools on the openSuSE 11.1 install DVD, what exactly happens if I answer with a wrong root partition? For me, it lead to having all but 1 file removed from my other ext2 partitions. Is it because it decided to do a fsck?? I know that Suse 9.2 has an older implementation of fsck.ext2, but this is unexpected. Barring malicious intent, and the one time use of Plop boot manager ( from Hiren's BootCD, whith which I managed an urgent boot into opSuse 11, without any problems), I can't believe this would happen. With some details: After re-installing WinXP, again, a few days later, I proceeded, as many times in the past, in using the install bootloader repair utility from the initial 11.1 install DVD, to reinstall grub and rearrange the boot list. (My memory is a bit fuzzy from here) It kindly asked me which is my root partition, only I messed up, and gave it the partition that had Suse 9.2 installed ( sda2 = openSuse 11.1 ; sda5 = suse 9.2 ) As it showed the progress bar, I used the time to do some chores, so I'm not sure how much time it spent here, less then half an hour anyway. When I got back, it had the screen with a proposed boot list. I opted first to restore the MBR from a previous save, but this failed ( do not remember the exact error message, but it did not seem important) I then chose to reread the boot order from my previous list. This also failed, alerting me to a big problem. After some investigating I found that all my files were removed from the other ext2 partitions, created with 11.1, with a sole exception, a jar file, deep in /usr structure, IIRC.. Unsurprisingly, the suse 9.2 partition seems ok. I have saved a dd image of my partitions, and can expect to recover most of the files, using PhotoRec, but as unnamed and pathless. Currently I and am looking on how to recover both my file and folder structure, and it would help to know as much as possible about how this utility behaves when given a wrong root partition, Thanks, A foolish person

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