[opensuse-factory] Dualboot 11.0 and vista anyone?
Hi, Both me and the reporter of bug 396444 have a broken vista boot after RC1 instalation (I ignored the problem as I did not boot vista since quite some time, so it could just as well be broken with alpha0). So I wonder if other's vista is still functional? Unless I know what's causing this, this bug is one of those that will delay 11.0, so please help me. Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hi,
Both me and the reporter of bug 396444 have a broken vista boot after RC1 instalation (I ignored the problem as I did not boot vista since quite some time, so it could just as well be broken with alpha0).
So I wonder if other's vista is still functional? Unless I know what's causing this, this bug is one of those that will delay 11.0, so please help me. I do not have any Windows arround at the moment, but I was hit by ...
If you are dual booting with linux (heaven forbid people do that with M$ installed), then you need to make the vista partition the active partition (boot into linux and run fdisk /dev/<harddrive> and then p to print the partitions, then a, and then choose the number of the vista partition. Press w to write it, then reboot. Boot into the Vista cd and do the repair. For some reason, Vista will not repair, nor find itself, if it's not the active partition. I was getting the 0xc000000e error and this fixed it. http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=667166&SiteID=17 ... when installing openSUSE 10.3 on a friends machine. But I thought it was his messed up windows install ... Having an active partition seems to mean a lot to a windows installation. Hopefully somebody knows more ... ;) Felix --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Both me and the reporter of bug 396444 have a broken vista boot after RC1 instalation (I ignored the problem as I did not boot vista since quite some time, so it could just as well be broken with alpha0).
So I wonder if other's vista is still functional? Unless I know what's causing this, this bug is one of those that will delay 11.0, so please help me.
My system has a broken vista as well. I am sure that it is RC related as
this system has not been used for any beta testing till the RC. So yes
something in RC1 broke the system.
--
Boyd Gerber
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Lynn Gerber napsal(a): | On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote: |> Both me and the reporter of bug 396444 have a broken vista |> boot after RC1 instalation (I ignored the problem as I did |> not boot vista since quite some time, so it could just as well |> be broken with alpha0). |> |> So I wonder if other's vista is still functional? Unless I |> know what's causing this, this bug is one of those that will |> delay 11.0, so please help me. | | My system has a broken vista as well. I am sure that it is RC related as | this system has not been used for any beta testing till the RC. So yes | something in RC1 broke the system. As the system hasn't been used for testing any beta, it needn't be RC1-related. The bug /buggy behavior/ might have been in openSUSE 11.0 for longer time than since RC1 (beta3, for instance). Anyway, the assumption that installing RC1 must have broken Vista booting is definitely correct ;) L. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIRupeVSqMdRCqTiwRAiG/AJwNDnk3qagHtxUj1yGKGqDR6/AxxQCgkF/Q ZzdAOAiXI1Wa5a/98GvQRrY= =UhlB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Dne Wednesday 04 of June 2008 20:59:44 Boyd Lynn Gerber napsal(a):
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Both me and the reporter of bug 396444 have a broken vista boot after RC1 instalation (I ignored the problem as I did not boot vista since quite some time, so it could just as well be broken with alpha0).
So I wonder if other's vista is still functional? Unless I know what's causing this, this bug is one of those that will delay 11.0, so please help me.
My system has a broken vista as well. I am sure that it is RC related as this system has not been used for any beta testing till the RC. So yes something in RC1 broke the system.
Looking at success/failure stories, there must be some difference in the way bootloader was installed. Would it be possible to provide the installation logs and created bootloader configuration files for at least one success and at least one failure story? I suspect different way of bootloader installation to result in different result of booting Vista, especially related to changes done into MBR. Cannot test myself, don't have a Vista. Jiri -- Regards, Jiri Srain YaST Team Leader --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: jsrain@suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 959 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Jiri Srain wrote:
Dne Wednesday 04 of June 2008 20:59:44 Boyd Lynn Gerber napsal(a):
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Both me and the reporter of bug 396444 have a broken vista boot after RC1 instalation (I ignored the problem as I did not boot vista since quite some time, so it could just as well be broken with alpha0).
So I wonder if other's vista is still functional? Unless I know what's causing this, this bug is one of those that will delay 11.0, so please help me.
My system has a broken vista as well. I am sure that it is RC related as this system has not been used for any beta testing till the RC. So yes something in RC1 broke the system.
Looking at success/failure stories, there must be some difference in the way bootloader was installed.
Would it be possible to provide the installation logs and created bootloader configuration files for at least one success and at least one failure story? I suspect different way of bootloader installation to result in different result of booting Vista, especially related to changes done into MBR.
Cannot test myself, don't have a Vista.
Sadly, I did not keep the logs. I reinstalled 10.3 after fixing vista. I
do not want to go through the mess again. I rarely use vista. I needed
to use the machine to get real work done. I will try again once 11.0 is
released. I spent to much time working with the system to get things
working again. I do have my other test systems, but they do not have
vista. I will continue to test RC1 but, not on the machine with vista.
Maybe someone else with vista and the time can do the testing and provide
the logs.
Sorry,
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Boyd Gerber
Am Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2008 schrieb Boyd Lynn Gerber:
Sorry,
No reason, it's perfectly understandable. I left my vista on my test machine basically exactly for this class of bug. I'm just puzzled because I'm unable to reproduce it ;( Greetings, Stephan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Jiri Srain schreef:
Dne Wednesday 04 of June 2008 20:59:44 Boyd Lynn Gerber napsal(a):
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Both me and the reporter of bug 396444 have a broken vista boot after RC1 instalation (I ignored the problem as I did not boot vista since quite some time, so it could just as well be broken with alpha0).
So I wonder if other's vista is still functional? Unless I know what's causing this, this bug is one of those that will delay 11.0, so please help me.
My system has a broken vista as well. I am sure that it is RC related as this system has not been used for any beta testing till the RC. So yes something in RC1 broke the system.
Looking at success/failure stories, there must be some difference in the way bootloader was installed.
Would it be possible to provide the installation logs and created bootloader configuration files for at least one success and at least one failure story? I suspect different way of bootloader installation to result in different result of booting Vista, especially related to changes done into MBR.
Cannot test myself, don't have a Vista.
Jiri
Vista is very picky. Even install XP won't find vista again afterwards... Here you definately need a vista-friendly-bootloader to get both selectable. Felix's story is correct only in case vista, every other version boots fine with suse. ( i only hope you will not change things that break all that's working OK now...;) -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) Besturingssysteem: Linux 2.6.25.4-8-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) KDE: 4.0.4 (KDE 4.0.4 >= 20080505) "release 21.1" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hello, it worked over here. I ran the first-boot on my new machine from Vista (it's preloaded on this FSC Esprimo) which let me partition the disk into one partition for Windows ('C') and one for data ('D'). Afterwards, when installing openSUSE, I deleted the second, empty Windows-data-partition (D) and didn't touch the Vista-partition. Greetings, Chris Am Mittwoch, den 04.06.2008, 09:44 +0200 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
Hi,
Both me and the reporter of bug 396444 have a broken vista boot after RC1 instalation (I ignored the problem as I did not boot vista since quite some time, so it could just as well be broken with alpha0).
So I wonder if other's vista is still functional? Unless I know what's causing this, this bug is one of those that will delay 11.0, so please help me.
Greetings, Stephan
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Boyd Lynn Gerber -
Christian Jäger -
Felix Möller -
Jiri Srain -
Lukas Ocilka -
Oddball -
Stephan Kulow