Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Yesterday I received two new laptops, both Toshiba L675 with Windows 7. This morning I tried to install openSUSE 11.4 without touching any of the default settings. The installation went fine, but the system was not able to boot up afterwards (after stage1 had finished). I suspect graphics is the problem as a saw a weird dotted line being written across the splash-screen before the system halted. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
The Windows Repair Disc enabled me to get the windows boot manager back. The question still remains though: how did the installation of openSUSE screw up the windows boot manager? Any chance that it resides at the end of a partition and therefore got removed when the partition was resized?
Explanation (courtesy of Stefan Quandt, thank you): Apparently one no longer boots a Windows partition directly, one is now supposed to boot from the boot manager partition, which appears to be called WinRE. YaST doesn't quite understand this (just like me), so instead of configuring the boot loader to boot from the WinRE partition, YaST configured it to boot from the Windows partition. Clearly something we need to fix so people (who need Windows) don't stumble over this again. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org