[opensuse] dual booting 11.1 and windows 7
Since my post earlier in the day, I have restored the grub menu at boot by rewriting the master boot record using the bootloader tool in yast. I can now boot into 11.1 but not into windows 7. I read posts on the difficulties of dual booting vista and edited the menu.lst file as suggested in these posts. The windows section of the menu.lst file now read: title Windows 7 Ultimate rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1 When I attempt to boot to windows from the grub boot menu the screen goes blank for a few seconds and then returns to the grub boot menu. The only change being one time it is the green boot menu and the next a winter scene boot menu. I have been unable to locate any other suggestions on how to get this up an running. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this? Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2009/01/18 14:02 (GMT-0800) Dave composed:
Since my post earlier in the day, I have restored the grub menu at boot by rewriting the master boot record using the bootloader tool in yast. I can now boot into 11.1 but not into windows 7. I read posts on the difficulties of dual booting vista and edited the menu.lst file as suggested in these posts. The windows section of the menu.lst file now read:
title Windows 7 Ultimate rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1
When I attempt to boot to windows from the grub boot menu the screen goes blank for a few seconds and then returns to the grub boot menu. The only change being one time it is the green boot menu and the next a winter scene boot menu.
I have been unable to locate any other suggestions on how to get this up an running. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this?
Many times the only problem stems from using more than one partitioning tool on the disk. I suggest starting with a clean disk, and using one and only one partitioning tool to completely partition prior to installing anything. One thing I usually remember to do prior to beginning an install of Windows is to set its primary active prior to beginning install, to reduce its inclination to touch any more than it actually needs to during its installation. Another habit is to always, unless I'm using some primary boot manager other than Grub, have at least one primary partition for ext2, which I usually use for /boot of the first Linux installed, but not after. This prevents well-meaning Linux installers from breaking what I know works, and allows me to manually boot a Linux with a fouled boot loader, besides chainloading to Windows. I've never attempted to install either W7 or Vista, but I do have many many years of multiboot experience, and >20 machines currently multibooting. I've been reading several years about foibles of others attempting to get one or another going, or going again, including Vista, after install of something else, which resulted in creation of http://fm.no-ip.com/install-doz-after.html I never install Grub to the MBR of a single HD system: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub#How_does_a_PC_boot_.2F_How_can_I_set_up_a_w... I rarely have problems with partitioning or booting that I didn't create myself. The only partitioning tool I've used for several years is non-free.http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/ It has great support: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfsee-support/ -- "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." Proverbs 22:6 NIV 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
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/01/18 14:02 (GMT-0800) Dave composed:
Since my post earlier in the day, I have restored the grub menu at boot by rewriting the master boot record using the bootloader tool in yast. I can now boot into 11.1 but not into windows 7. I read posts on the difficulties of dual booting vista and edited the menu.lst file as suggested in these posts. The windows section of the menu.lst file now read:
title Windows 7 Ultimate rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1
When I attempt to boot to windows from the grub boot menu the screen goes blank for a few seconds and then returns to the grub boot menu. The only change being one time it is the green boot menu and the next a winter scene boot menu.
I have been unable to locate any other suggestions on how to get this up an running. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this?
Many times the only problem stems from using more than one partitioning tool on the disk. I suggest starting with a clean disk, and using one and only one partitioning tool to completely partition prior to installing anything.
One thing I usually remember to do prior to beginning an install of Windows is to set its primary active prior to beginning install, to reduce its inclination to touch any more than it actually needs to during its installation.
Another useful thing to do, is create a FAT32 partition and move the Windows "My Documents" folder to it. This makes it easier to work on data from either OS. I've done this with XP. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 17:51 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/01/18 14:02 (GMT-0800) Dave composed:
Since my post earlier in the day, I have restored the grub menu at boot by rewriting the master boot record using the bootloader tool in yast. I can now boot into 11.1 but not into windows 7. I read posts on the difficulties of dual booting vista and edited the menu.lst file as suggested in these posts. The windows section of the menu.lst file now read:
title Windows 7 Ultimate rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1
When I attempt to boot to windows from the grub boot menu the screen goes blank for a few seconds and then returns to the grub boot menu. The only change being one time it is the green boot menu and the next a winter scene boot menu.
I have been unable to locate any other suggestions on how to get this up an running. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this?
Many times the only problem stems from using more than one partitioning tool on the disk. I suggest starting with a clean disk, and using one and only one partitioning tool to completely partition prior to installing anything.
One thing I usually remember to do prior to beginning an install of Windows is to set its primary active prior to beginning install, to reduce its inclination to touch any more than it actually needs to during its installation.
Another useful thing to do, is create a FAT32 partition and move the Windows "My Documents" folder to it. This makes it easier to work on data from either OS. I've done this with XP.
Is there a sound technical problem/reason why enabling NTFS write ability is not recommended? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-01-18 at 18:35 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
Another useful thing to do, is create a FAT32 partition and move the Windows "My Documents" folder to it. This makes it easier to work on data from either OS. I've done this with XP.
Is there a sound technical problem/reason why enabling NTFS write ability is not recommended?
Traditionally, it simply could not be done. However, we now have a driver that can do it, it is said to be reliable, but it hasn't been possible for so long that we still think it is not possible or not recommended. My opinion, of course :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklzwqYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U4xgCeNiymk1IEYpzcWlYOsG3B8xqo qDIAn0ID+qyTpOMTv4PFx35B1TLzh/35 =mTE1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
Another useful thing to do, is create a FAT32 partition and move the Windows "My Documents" folder to it. This makes it easier to work on data from either OS. I've done this with XP.
Why? The NTFS-3G driver works fine these days. Manne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Manne Merak wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Another useful thing to do, is create a FAT32 partition and move the Windows "My Documents" folder to it. This makes it easier to work on data from either OS. I've done this with XP.
Why? The NTFS-3G driver works fine these days.
Perhaps, but I just don't trust MS to not "fix" things. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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