Re: Windows won't boot after installing Suse 9.1

From: B Gruff (bbgruff_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:07:47 +0100

Voop wrote:

> Does anyone have any helpful suggestions?

Sorry Voop - not really qualified (as a newbie myself) to answer your
question directly, but addressing this to the gurus here:-

Guys:-
Why do we DO this?
For somebody new to Linux, giving it a try, etc., surely the most
off-putting thing that can happen is that they lose their Windows
system? - and these are the very people that we want/need to have a
positive first experience?

Why do we persist in publicising a dual boot from the hard drive?
Wouldn't it be better to stress the advisability of using a boot
floppy initially? That way:-
  Floppy in = Grub boot
  No floppy = Your Windows computer as it was

There's nothing lost - when they have found their feet, they will twig
that they can very easily change it to do all their booting from the
HD if they want?

Wouldn't it save a lot of heartache?
As I see it, at the moment, the onus of multiple boots falls on Linux,
and when something goes wrong, it's Linux that gets the blame?
In fact, would SuSE et, al do well to make Floppy the default, on the
basis that anybody who knew what they were doing (like wat we expert
newbies do now!) would also know to change it?

Bill

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