Re: My SUSE Linux-XP problem--a clue?
From: Eric Moors (scare.crow_at_oz.land)
Date: 02/26/04
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:07:24 +0100
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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