Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sid Boyce wrote:

> Snake Eyes wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/..._booting91.html
> >
> > i read about the bug that can cause some problems with
> > win xp
> >
> > can i do this ?
> >
> > using a old knoppix version (kernel 2.4)
> >
> > 1. partition manually using fdisk
> > 2. format the partition as riserfs/ext3
> >  
> knoppix can do this, also timos-rescuecd.
>
> > 3. tell suse installer to install without formating to
> > the above partition (thereby avoiding using the parted
> > tool)
> >  
> That's an install decision, used it yesterday on a colleague's machine.
>
> > 4. install GRUB to MBR
> >  
> It normally does that. The problem I met and have not yet fixed, on my 
> daughter's machine I have SuSE on /dev/hda and Windows 98SE on 
> /dev/hdc, though Windows is in the menu, it boots Linux even when 
> Windows is selected, tried mapping in grub with no change. There is 
> some issue with Windows not being on the first partition of hda. I may 
> next try  using the Windows drive as hda, altering  /etc/fstab to use 
> /dev/hdc, using  rdev to zap vmlinuz  to set root to /dev/hda1.
>
> > is this safe ?
> >  
> We've done quite a few installs that way with Windows installed on the 
> first partition of hda, it works. Yesterday we installed SuSE on a 
> colleages machine that had 98SE, Mandrake 10.0 and RedHat 9 installed. 
> He was using bootmanager which didn't recognise  reiserfs, so we had 
> to reinstall as ext3. In order to use bootmanager to boot Linux (oops, 
> we forgot to save MBR and had to fire up the bootmanager rescue disk 
> which restored it to before SuSE install). We had to install grub in 
> the partition, for SuSE it was /dev/hda3, he said he also had to do 
> that for the other Linux distros. From bootmanager, 98SE, Mandrake, 
> RedHat and SuSE all work.

For bootmanager above, read bootmagic.
Regards
Sid.
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