Am Samstag 12 November 2005 07:55 schrieb Clayton
I'm having a problem getting SUSE 10.0 to install on my brother's computer (he's 8000 km away from me, so this is all done via the phone
Hi Clayton, that's hard...
Hardware: ----------------- Motherboard = MSI 865 PE Neo2 RAM = 1 GB (2 x 512 MB Kingston) Video = MSI nVidia FX5200 Sound = SB Audugy Modem = Motorolla (hardware, not Winmodem) Hard drives = 2xsamsung 80GB on IDE1/2, liteon combo and liteon DVD-RW on IDE3/4 = 2x SATA drives (1st is 160 GB, 2nd is 400 GB)
WinXP Pro is installedon 400 GB SATA drive and it is normally set to be the primary...
I have a simmilar constallation: 2 SATA disks 1 IDE disk Booting linux via grub only worked, if grub was in the MBR of the primary master disk. But I fond a workaround: I have win2k3 on PM. I made the 2nd SATA drive PM and undplugged the win disk. I installed linux on this drive with grub in MBR. After installation finished I did a: dd if=/dev/sda of=BOOTSECT.LIN bs=512 count=1 (substitute sda with hda, if you are using the newer driver) I put the file BOOTSECT.LIN on a floppy and edited: /boot/grub/menu.lst /etc/fstab to point to sdb (former sda) I made the win disk PM(sda) again and the linux disk SM(sdb) I booted into windows (on ntfs), copied the file BOOTSECT.LIN to C:\ and added: C:\BOOTSECT.LIN = "SuSE Linux" to C:\boot.ini This works as long as you did not change the partitioning of the SM disk. If you repartition the linux disk, you have to rewrite the MBR on the linux disk (which must be the PM at this time) and dump the bootsector again to a file and copy this new file to C:\
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Maybe you only have to change the devicenames in menu.lst and fstab ? -- mdc