Re: My SUSE Linux-XP problem--a clue?

From: Paul Colvin (pcolvin_at_interaccess.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:30:47 GMT

What you need to do is to go up to the SuSE support site and search for
"dual boot". There is a whitepaper out there describing how to set up
grub to boot from the SuSe drive and how to use the XP boot.ini to double
duty for you. I suggest before you follow the instructions that you boot
to a recovery console and do a "fixmbr" and "fixboot", and boot into XP.
Then using the install disk boot into your SuSE installation and reinstall
grub/lilo, and the bootsek.lin dump.

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:07:24 +0100, Eric Moors <scare.crow@oz.land> wrote:

> That are a lot of groups to crosspost to.
> pick just one or two next time.
>
>> Because my computer kept crashing after setting up a dual-boot XP-SUSE
>> Linux machine (each on a separate hard drive), I decided to remove the
>> Linux boot
>> loader and restore my XP master boot record. This I did, and it all
>> worked.
>
> Xp does not crash because you have installed lilo or grub in the MBR.
>
>> But when I rebooted, I got the little Plug and Play notification that
>> Windows likes to throw up. It said that I'd just installed new hardware
>> (!)
>> and had to reboot. I did so, and everything seems fine.
>
> Hmm. If something was wrong before I doubt it to be fixed now.
> What loader did you install and where did you install it? (ie. show the
> configuration file for that loader)
>
>> I now remember that I got the same message when I first installed the
>> Linux boot loader. This suggests that something about it doesn't sit at
>> all well with XP, causing some problem with Plug and Play. Anybody know
>> what could be causing this?
>
> Weird. What new hardware did it claim to find?
> Can you show the partitiontables from both HDD's run fdisk -l from linux
> and
> post the result here.
>
>> And how can I boot into Linux on my secondary hard drive without using a
>> boot loader?
>
> You can't. But the loader could just as well be on a floppy disk.
> If you use lilo, just change the boot=/dev/hda line to boot=/dev/fd0
> and run lilo, with a floppy inserted. (preferably create a backup floppy
> as
> well)
>
> Eric 

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