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["Adam Sailer" <ASailer@xxxxxxx>]

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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:11 PM
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Subject: [opensuse] Re: dual boot issues

M Harris wrote:

> On Sunday 25 January 2009 07:39, Dave wrote:
> > If not, would anyone be interested in helping me figure this one out?
> What happens... symptoms please?
>
> I have my daughters ACER laptop dual booting between wishta and 
opensuse
> 10.3/   I had an interesting problem that I've never encountered... the
> first few times that wishta started it gave me a black screen and fatal
> startup errors... like it could tell that something was very wrong with
> the MBR and wasn't happy about it. On about the fourth bootup wishta 
began
> working "as normally as you might expect it too... it sucks..." and the
> dual boot has
> worked since---very strange behavior.   I am wondering if they have
> finally
> rigged W7 so that dual boot will be a royal pain./   (sour grapes
> stuff?)   ... just guessing of course.   I don't plan running W7... and
> wouldn't even have wishta if it hadn't come preloaded on my daughter's
> ACER... we will probably drop it... it can't really do anything and I'm
> not about to buy any windows software!
An alternative maybe to install VirtualBox and install Vista on it. That 
eliminates the dual boot issues. 

I have openSUSE 11.1 with Virtualbox running XP. The only reason I keep 
XP is for TurboTax, it won't run under wine or codeweaver crossover pro.  

> > > >

I'm dual-booting Win7 and OpenSuse 11.1 just fine, each on its own primary
partition.

Since Win7 obliterates the master boot record, I installed it first =)

Do it the other way round, and I think you have to boot from the Suse DVD and
restore GRUB.

-Adam


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