On 2010/03/03 12:47 (GMT-0500) James Knott composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
Missed option 0 (thinking sda2 was still FAT32 as on old HD): a) install Grub to sda2 b) set sda2 active/bootable
sda2 is the Windows "My Documents" folder.
Your new HD fdisk -l output says sda2 is Linux native, not something commonly used by those booting Windows.
Again, what's wrong with sda5? It's worked well for years.
Nobody can go straight to sda5 with standard MBR code. To get there requires a step/chain from sda[1-4] (using standard MBR code), or a specialized boot manager, or alien MBR code. You obviously were using alien (Grub) MBR code, the default for most Linux installations regardless whether actually needed or whether Windows is also installed. What's your sdb1 used for? -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org