[opensuse] Can't Dual-boot oS 11.0 & Windows Vista?
I installed openSUSE 11.0 on a 2nd hard drive and let it install the bootloader (GRUB) on the primary drive where windows was installed. The installation created two options in the boot menu "windows 1" and "windows 2" neither which will load Windows. Is it possible to dual-boot openSUSE 11.0 and Windows Vista? How? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
I installed openSUSE 11.0 on a 2nd hard drive and let it install the bootloader (GRUB) on the primary drive where windows was installed. The installation created two options in the boot menu "windows 1" and "windows 2" neither which will load Windows. Is it possible to dual-boot openSUSE 11.0 and Windows Vista? How?
You have to change the bios, to return your primary drive as the start up drive, then you will get the choice suse or win, windows is there allright. John H -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Yes, and when I choose either "Windows 1" or "Windows 2" it just stays
stuck at a blank screen with something about chainloader at the top.
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:07 AM, John Heinen
Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
I installed openSUSE 11.0 on a 2nd hard drive and let it install the bootloader (GRUB) on the primary drive where windows was installed. The installation created two options in the boot menu "windows 1" and "windows 2" neither which will load Windows. Is it possible to dual-boot openSUSE 11.0 and Windows Vista? How?
You have to change the bios, to return your primary drive as the start up drive, then you will get the choice suse or win, windows is there allright. John H -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
I installed openSUSE 11.0 on a 2nd hard drive and let it install the bootloader (GRUB) on the primary drive where windows was installed. The installation created two options in the boot menu "windows 1" and "windows 2" neither which will load Windows. Is it possible to dual-boot openSUSE 11.0 and Windows Vista? How?
You have to change the bios, to return your primary drive as the start up drive, then you will get the choice suse or win, windows is there allright. John H -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Date: Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Can't Dual-boot oS 11.0 & Windows Vista? To: hensandpat@earthlink.net Cc: opensuse@opensuse.org Yes, and when I choose either "Windows 1" or "Windows 2" it just stays stuck at a blank screen with something about chainloader at the top.
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:07 AM, John Heinen
wrote: Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
I installed openSUSE 11.0 on a 2nd hard drive and let it install the bootloader (GRUB) on the primary drive where windows was installed. The installation created two options in the boot menu "windows 1" and "windows 2" neither which will load Windows. Is it possible to dual-boot openSUSE 11.0 and Windows Vista? How?
You have to change the bios, to return your primary drive as the start up drive, then you will get the choice suse or win, windows is there allright. John H
Check www.bugzilla.novell.com to see if there is a bug report. There was an issue in the beta testing of 11.0 not boot Vista on dual boot systems. C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Check www.bugzilla.novell.com to see if there is a bug report. There was an issue in the beta testing of 11.0 not boot Vista on dual boot systems. I haven't looked at the bugzilla although I did have a little trouble. I just installed SuSE 11.0 on a laptop that has Vista. My problem seems to have been the opposite of the original post. After installing SuSE and rebooting for the first time, I just booted directly to Windows without even showing grub. I ran the repair from the CD and discovered that the grub was installed on the SuSE partition rather than the MBR. After fixing
clarkt@cnsp.com wrote: that, grub works fine and I can boot either Vista or SuSE. To the original poster, I am curious. did you use a separate /boot partition? Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Damon Register
clarkt@cnsp.com wrote:
Check www.bugzilla.novell.com to see if there is a bug report. There was an issue in the beta testing of 11.0 not boot Vista on dual boot systems.
I haven't looked at the bugzilla although I did have a little trouble. I just installed SuSE 11.0 on a laptop that has Vista. My problem seems to have been the opposite of the original post. After installing SuSE and rebooting for the first time, I just booted directly to Windows without even showing grub. I ran the repair from the CD and discovered that the grub was installed on the SuSE partition rather than the MBR. After fixing that, grub works fine and I can boot either Vista or SuSE.
To the original poster, I am curious. did you use a separate /boot partition?
Yes, I did create a separate /boot it is /dev/sdb1. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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I installed openSUSE 11.0 on a 2nd hard drive and let it install the bootloader (GRUB) on the primary drive where windows was installed. The installation created two options in the boot menu "windows 1" and "windows 2" neither which will load Windows. Is it possible to dual-boot openSUSE 11.0 and Windows Vista? How?
You have to change the bios, to return your primary drive as the start up drive, then you will get the choice suse or win, windows is there allright. John H -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Andrew, I too had this problem and solved it with this. Find the Windows section in menu.lst and check to see if it resembles this. The chainloader and harddrive part are the parts I had to change. title "Windows Vista" root (hd0,0) chainloader +1
I installed openSUSE 11.0 on a 2nd hard drive and let it install the bootloader (GRUB) on the primary drive where windows was installed. The installation created two options in the boot menu "windows 1" and "windows 2" neither which will load Windows. Is it possible to dual-boot openSUSE 11.0 and Windows Vista? How?
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I run a Linux installfest once a quarter here in the Boston area, and a
number of my installs are dual boots. I generally do SuSE and Ubuntu
installs and the other guys do Fedora. First of all, Windows generally
sets up 2 partitions, with 1 hidden. The first thing I do is to
aggressively defragment Windows. All Windows file systems need
defragmentation. The next thing I do is to resize the Windows primary
partition. (Vista has its own resizing utility, otherwise I prefer to
use either QTParted or Parted from a bootable live distro).
Then, once I have reduced the size of Windows, I boot to make sure it
runs. This is an important step, because the resizing operation itself
can mess things up).
Once Windows is shown to live comfortably in its smaller digs, I then
install Linux, usually in an extended partition, but some people prefer
to put /boot into a primary.
Grub will show 2 Windows boots, but the second one is simply the hidden
drive. This usually contains the restore data.
Once Linux is installed, I again boot into Windows to make sure we can
still boot into it.
Lastly, I may alter the /boot/grub/menu.lst (or grub.conf) to make
Windows the default boot if desired by the client and also to remove
the second Windows boot entry. So far, the only problem I had was with
an ancient Windows 95 system where there appeared some stuff in the
bios.
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