Re: (Newbie) Problems installing SUSE linux enterprise desktop 10 to dual boot with XP

ISO is expanded, boot device order is changed in the BIOS. Sorry if I
wasn't clear in my previous post. The docs with it talked about
copying initrd and linux to the harddrive, and I found something online
for someone with a similar problem that spoke about editing the
boot.ini directly. So throw that out, because obviously its not
something I need to do for this. All docs claim that the CD should be
bootable, and I am successful booting from other bootable CDs, so it is
not my BIOS settings nor my drives. I unpack the iso and burn the
resulting files onto CD. I have also been able to boot from and
install previous versions of linux (i believe it was a few red hat
distros) I was just unsure of what I could be missing. Any ideas are
much appreciated.

Malke wrote:
houghi wrote:

Jay wrote:
I am trying to install form CD 1, but my comp will not boot from the
CD. Wanted to try booting from the hard drive as the docs suggested,
but unsure of the syntax to adjust the boot.ini. I'm not sure what I
am missing as everything points to saying it should work fine. Any
ideas would be greatly appreciated.

You need to edit your bios. As this is extremely basic knowledge, have
you taken backups? Are ypu able to re-install whatever you have running
now? Have you even GOT a bootable CD, or does it just say blabla.iso?

And boot.ini is the Windows boot loader. You shouldn't be messing about with
that at all to change the boot order in the BIOS (as houghi says). After
you install SUSE, use the SUSE bootloader.

Malke
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"I have a cunning plan..."

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