How to boot suse from windows boot manager

From: Heiner (no.spam_at_t-online.de)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:15:14 +0200

Hi!

I would like to install suse 9.1 on a notebook (gericom ego). I am neither
allowed to touch the mbr nor to change the partition geometry. I may just
use the additional 5 GB available, if recovery pro was removed.

I followed the instruction given here

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2002/10/fhassel_grub_nt.html

which mainly recommends to install GRUB on hda3 (and not on hda, i.e. the
mbr remains untouched), to copy hda3's boot sector to a disk (I used an
usb stick instead), to copy it to the windows partition and to use it by
windows boot loader.

The same procedure worked fine on my desktop with FreeBSD. On the
notebook above, the booting ended up in the letters GRUB on the screen.
Nothing more. I tried the same with lilo (configured by yast), which ended
up in a screen just showing the letter L.

My drive geometry is 50 GB (hda1, active) for windows, 1 swap partition
and 5 GB (hda3, reiser) for linux.

Any ideas? 

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Heiner
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