Yes, and when I choose either "Windows 1" or "Windows 2" it just stays stuck at a blank screen with something about chainloader at the top. On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:07 AM, John Heinen wrote:

Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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I installed openSUSE 11.0 on a 2nd hard drive and let it install the bootloader (GRUB) on the primary drive where windows was installed. The installation created two options in the boot menu "windows 1" and "windows 2" neither which will load Windows. Is it possible to dual-boot openSUSE 11.0 and Windows Vista? How?

You have to change the bios, to return your primary drive as the start up drive, then you will get the choice suse or win, windows is there allright. John H -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Joakimsen Date: Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Can't Dual-boot oS 11.0 & Windows Vista? To: hensandpat@earthlink.net Cc: opensuse@opensuse.org

Yes, and when I choose either "Windows 1" or "Windows 2" it just stays stuck at a blank screen with something about chainloader at the top.

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:07 AM, John Heinen wrote:

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Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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I installed openSUSE 11.0 on a 2nd hard drive and let it install the bootloader (GRUB) on the primary drive where windows was installed. The installation created two options in the boot menu "windows 1" and "windows 2" neither which will load Windows. Is it possible to dual-boot openSUSE 11.0 and Windows Vista? How?

You have to change the bios, to return your primary drive as the start up drive, then you will get the choice suse or win, windows is there allright. John H

Check www.bugzilla.novell.com to see if there is a bug report. There was an issue in the beta testing of 11.0 not boot Vista on dual boot systems. C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Damon Register wrote:

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Check www.bugzilla.novell.com to see if there is a bug report. There was an issue in the beta testing of 11.0 not boot Vista on dual boot systems.

I haven't looked at the bugzilla although I did have a little trouble. I just installed SuSE 11.0 on a laptop that has Vista. My problem seems to have been the opposite of the original post. After installing SuSE and rebooting for the first time, I just booted directly to Windows without even showing grub. I ran the repair from the CD and discovered that the grub was installed on the SuSE partition rather than the MBR. After fixing that, grub works fine and I can boot either Vista or SuSE.

To the original poster, I am curious. did you use a separate /boot partition?

Yes, I did create a separate /boot it is /dev/sdb1. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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