Martín Melado wrote:
This is my first message on the list, so hello to all :)
I have had some problems installing openSUSE. I have several partitions with several OS, and the MBR is used by the Windows Vista bootloader (BCD). In one of those partitions, I had Ubuntu installed, with GRUB in the Linux partition itself, not in the MBR, and everything was working fine.
Yesterday I installed openSUSE 11.1 from DVD, and just after that, the computer wasn't booting. I mean, neither BCD nor GRUB are loading. I just get the classical "Veryfing DMI pool data..." and it just stops there, with no messages.
I had marked especifically in the installer that I wanted GRUB to be installed in /dev/sda6 (the Linux partition), so I am not sure what happened and why it modified the MBR. Anyway, just to be sure, I restored the MBR with a LiveCD and 'dd' (I had a backup) and everything worked fine again. Then I reinstalled openSUSE, but the same problem appeared again.
I compared the MBR (dd & diff) before and after installing openSUSE and it _is_ being modified, but I am not sure why.
I am not using the "automatic configuration" option in the installer.
Any suggestions? I want to keep the BCD bootloader.
Thank you.
PS: Sorry if my English is not very good.
-- Martín
Hi, what you want is say bootloader that doesn't MBR by "generic boot code" and mark "boot from root". It is on second tab. Josef Reidinger -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org