Andrew Schuh wrote:
Sorry to bring up an often asked question, but I'm wondering about the best way to dual boot SUSE 9.1 and XP. I've previously used Redhat and Fedora (before Core 2) and in the past I've just installed GRUB/LILO to the MBR of my Windoze install. I'm a little wary concerning the issues that have been raised with dual booting the 2.6 kernel-based distributions and Windoze. Also my p4p800 doesn't have the option of LBA=enabled. I have two hard drives with Windoze on the first (80G primary)and I want SUSE on the second (20G slave). I tried installing GRUB to the MBR of hdb and then switching my boot order to make it first but it wouldn't boot that way. Any suggestions?
I use LILO with SuSE 9.1. If windoze has its bootloader on the MBR of hda, and LILO on hdb then you can tell LILO to boot directly to hda by calling it 'other' instead of 'image'. Just tell the BIOS to boot to the disk with SuSE on it. You can edit LILO with YaST, and the BIOS at boot.