[opensuse] dual boot Windows 7 + OpenSuse 11.2 problems
Hello, For my son I bought me a HP Pavilion dv6 2020sb. As he needs Windows for school I wanted to make a dual boot setup Windows 7 + OpenSuse 11.2 My first try last week ended up in a complet disaster. The HP came with a small Systeem volume (hidden?) a large C volume, a 14 GB recovery volume and a small HP Tools volume. All dynamical (simple). The first thing I did was to skrink the C volume and I also created two new ones (using windows 7) During the installation of OpenSuse 11.2 the first problem occured when Yast tried to guess the partition table. Translated from dutch to english <quote> Parted which is used by Yast2 to change the partition table can't read the partitions on /dev/sda. You can use the partitions on /dev/sda as the are right now. You can format then and create mounting point. .... .. </quote> The complete Dutch text can be seem here: <URL:http://users.telenet.be/tos4ever/downloads/yast.jpg> I click on Ok and tried to create mount points. Whatever I tried I could'nt make a swap partition. Nevertheless I went further. I was in a hurry (my wife wanted to go out) so I started the installation and went out. When I came home I saw a error message something like this: 'Grub unable to write to mbr and grub error 17'. Rebooting the laptop into Windows 7 was impossible. I got a 'bootmgr not found error'. With the help from a friend I could make Windows booting up again. I wonder if the dynamical volumes has something to do with this? In the past I've installed dual boots on XP and Vista machines without any problem but now I really don't know how to go further. The current partition setup can be seem here: <URL:http://users.telenet.be/tos4ever/downloads/partitions.jpg> Any help would be very welcome. TIA, Martin -- UTSI: http://users.telenet.be/tos4ever/utsi.htm Atari FTP-site: ftp://kurobox.serveftp.net:3021 Running openSuse 11.1 / KDE 3.5.10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
The first thing I did was to skrink the C volume and I also created two new ones (using windows 7)
I was thinking of booting from the 11.2 DVD and letting Yast do the shrinking and partitioning and taking the Yast defaults all the way. Has anyone simply tried doing that on a computer which comes with windows 7 pre installed? L -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:42:12 +0100 lynn <lynn@steve-ss.com> wrote:
The first thing I did was to skrink the C volume and I also created two new ones (using windows 7)
I was thinking of booting from the 11.2 DVD and letting Yast do the shrinking and partitioning and taking the Yast defaults all the way. Has anyone simply tried doing that on a computer which comes with windows 7 pre installed? L
That's the whole point. Yast is unable to do that. As said the laptop came with a dynamic disk. <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Disk_Manager> AFAIK, the only way to install OpenSuse is by converting the dynamic drive into a basic one, but that involve reformatting the drive and that's something I'm not very keen of to do. I don't have a Windows 7 system dvd, only a recovery dvd set. I wouldn't be suprised if the recovery dvd's wouldn't do their job if the partitions has been changed. TTFN, Martin -- UTSI: http://users.telenet.be/tos4ever/utsi.htm Atari FTP-site: ftp://kurobox.serveftp.net:3021 Running openSuse 11.1 / KDE 3.5.10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2009/12/11 21:59 (GMT+0100) Martin /Nightowl/ Byttebier composed: [much deleted]
Any help would be very welcome.
I've never yet touched Vista or Win7, but I have suggestions anyway: 1-Use the repartitioning function of Windows Disk Management (or diskpart from recovery console cmdline) to resize the Windows partitions, and to create the partitions you wish for openSUSE to use, making sure at least one not to be used as swap is a primary, before ever booting the openSUSE DVD. Only if openSUSE refuses to use those that you created in advance, then 2-Use the repartitioning function of Windows Disk Management to resize the Windows partitions, leaving available freespace for Opensuse to use. Be sure that is _available_ freespace, not space that is unused but unavailable due to all existing partitions being primaries. Windows boot loaders can boot Grub, and thus Linux. For how to do that see: http://fm.no-ip.com/install-doz-after.html -- " We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion." 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
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:55:43 -0500 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 2009/12/11 21:59 (GMT+0100) Martin /Nightowl/ Byttebier composed: [much deleted]
Any help would be very welcome.
I've never yet touched Vista or Win7, but I have suggestions anyway:
1-Use the repartitioning function of Windows Disk Management (or diskpart from recovery console cmdline) to resize the Windows partitions, and to create the partitions you wish for openSUSE to use, making sure at least one not to be used as swap is a primary, before ever booting the openSUSE DVD. Only if openSUSE refuses to use those that you created in advance, then
The laptop came with a dynamic disk. Like it's right now I can't create primary or extended partitions. In order to do that I must convert the dynamic disk into a basic disk but that involved reformatting the disk and that's something I don't like at all. I don't have a Windows 7 system dvd. Only a recovery dvd which probably wouldn't work if I change the partitions. TTFN, Martin -- UTSI: http://users.telenet.be/tos4ever/utsi.htm Atari FTP-site: ftp://kurobox.serveftp.net:3021 Running openSuse 11.1 / KDE 3.5.10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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