SUSE screwed up GRUB!

[afogl001]

Okay, I had Ubuntu 9.10 installed and working great. I wanted to check out SUSE because i heard it was better for laptops and wanted to test it out. Went through the install, which was a bit more complicated partition wise than I'd like, asking the begin and end segment shell or something. I changed them to give me a 5GB partition, deleted an old partition of gNewSense (wireless was just too difficult to implement ie. work) and tada... stuff broke. gNewSense still shows up in SUSE's "GRUB" but I can't boot to it. When I threw in my 9.10 cd to fix everything, it showed that 9.10 was still installed and gNewSense was not.

So, how can I fix this. Is there a way to just reinstall the 9.10 GRUB for the Ubuntu I already have installed? The sooner the better, Ubuntu was my primary OS and all my stuff is on it!
FYI, do not recommend SUSE as far as installation goes ;(

[zvacet]

Click! (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling from LiveCD)

[phillw]

Click! (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling from LiveCD)

A man of few words :-)

to the OP, if you're looking for a ubuntu that is less resource hungry for a laptop have a look at xubuntu and lubuntu.
xubuntu is available in 9.10, lubuntu will be available as 10.04.

It's only a few weeks before all the 10.04's come out, so now is a good time to download the betas' and try them in "Try without altering my computer" mode to see if you prefer one of them.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu

Regards,

Phill.

[afogl001]

Thanks for the help. I wound up installing xubuntu 9.10 and am currently using its GRUB, but I'm going to switch it back to my Ubuntu install once I mess with openSUSE. Is there anyway to retain my Ubuntu GRUB while I mess around with installing new Linux distros (ie, so I don't have to keep repairing my GRUB when I delete the partitions I was messing around with)? Thanks

[afogl001]

Just as a heads up, I couldn't get GRUB installed using the supplied link (maybe because my install is on an extended partition, but who knows). After a little more searching, I found a solution that worked for me. Who would have guessed it would be in Ubuntu documentation.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows