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We tried exactly what you described. It is true that the repairing feature 
cleaned up most of our mistakes. Unluvkily, not all of them, though!
In fact, the best result w could get is to have both OS choice appearing on 
rebooting te system. SuSE is the default one and starts out fine.
But if Windiws is selected then Windows never starts. Actually, if Windows is 
selected then it loops endlessly on the OS choice.
We are stuck here. 
Can please anyone help us out ?

Thank you in advance,
Maura 

--- Ven 3/7/09, Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx> ha scritto:

> Da: Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>
> Oggetto: Re: [opensuse] How to create a dual-boot
> A: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Data: Venerdì 3 luglio 2009, 12:05
> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 11:53 +0000,
> Maura Monville wrote:
> > Roughly 6 years ago SuSE forum helped me install both
> SuSE ans Windows on the same computer.
> > I haven't done that since then any more.
> > I have installed SuSE 11.1 on my dektop at the lab. I
> have an empty partition.
> > How can I install Windows as well so as to create a
> dual-boot ?
> > Maybe this can be handle by Grub ?
>
> It is usually easier if Windows is installed first,
> and  Linux after, as
> Windows is notorious for removing any other OS boot info,
> whereas
> openSUSE gladly detects the Windows partition and adds it
> to grub
> without a hassle. But all is not lost:
>
> I would suggest the following:
>
> 1) Install Windows into the free partition, letting it do
> it's dirty
> deeds.
>
> 2) Boot the openSUSE install DVD. Do not do an install.
> Choose that you
> want to repair the system. In the menus there you can limit
> it to
> sorting out the boot stuff. openSUSE will then set up grub,
> along with a
> Windows entry.
>
> You can try step 2 right away to see that it works. It is a
> really nice
> SUSE feature.
>
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