-----Original Message----- From: Lucky Leavell [mailto:susemisc@UniXpress.com] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:23 PM To: [SLE] Subject: [SLE] Dual Booting Win95/9.1
I know I should install Win95 first, then SuSE BUT, due to conditions beyond my control, all I could do was leave a 2Gb partition empty for future Win95 instllation. I went ahead and installed SuSE 9.1 using the Grub boot manager.
When I install Win95, it will replace Grub, right?
Question: Can I just restore Grub and have dual boot capabilities back or must I start over? It would also be nice to be able to mount the FAT32 parttion in 9.1.
You're on the right track, first Suse (mainly to set up the disk partitions) then Windows (any flavour but tell it which partition to stay in) then Suse again to put GRUB back. Some windowses can be told to put the boot record in their own partition, but most will say "I'm the only OS here", and vomp your MBR. So to put it back: boot off the Suse CD and do a "Boot installed system". You should get back into your Suse system. Run YaST2 : System : Boot Loader Setup Check that it has spotted your Windows system and add that if it hasn't. Use "chainloader" ask for details. Choose "Replace code in MBR" and tick the box to make it "Replace /dev/hda with Generic code" Or easiest would be to do a Suse install on the second pass as it will spot the windows partition and set up GRUB automatically. BTW: Suse installed over any FAT32 based windows can resize windows and fit itself in automatically. Suse 9.0 is supposed to do that on NTFS but couldn't the one time I tried it. Also I prefer that hda1 be a small (32Meg) ext2 /boot partition and Suse won't do that for you. Hope this helps, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166