[opensuse] windows XP boot manger 2 boot opensuse
I have a desktop with 2 drives (sda and sdb). sda contains windows XP. Opensuse 10.2 (default installation) is on sdb. During the installation I had to put grub on the root partition of sdb. The machines are under a lease and we are NOT allow to modify the MBR. So the question is, how can I boot my linux from the windows xp boot manager? Followed the instructions given here: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Booting_Linux_with_the_Windows_NT/2000/XP_Boot_Ma... but no luck. After selecting linux from the WinXP boot manager I end up with a text console shown the word GRUB. -- Best wishes, Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 25 August 2007 05:45:51 pm Alberto Santana wrote:
The machines are under a lease and we are NOT allow to modify the MBR. So the question is, how can I boot my linux from the windows xp boot manager?
Recent machines have BIOS boot menu during start up, before BIOS gives control to hard disk. Older machines give you options in BIOS to setup boot order. Set second hard disk before first and than you can boot Linux. The SDB article seems to be for a single disk, or this is problem with NTFS mentioned here: http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html I tested once that kind of boot and it didn't worked. It was also from NTFS, but then I run: grub-install /dev/fd0 that installed grub on floppy and booted for quite some time from floppy. There was no speed problem as on floppy was only boot sector that was looking for the rest of files on hard disk. Windows was able to boot with or without floppy. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 25 August 2007 09:09 pm, Rajko M. wrote:
NTFS, but then I run: grub-install /dev/fd0 that installed grub on floppy and booted for quite some time from floppy.
The PC does not have a floppy drive, just USB from which it could boot. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 25 August 2007 08:25:51 pm Alberto Santana wrote:
On Saturday 25 August 2007 09:09 pm, Rajko M. wrote:
NTFS, but then I run: grub-install /dev/fd0 that installed grub on floppy and booted for quite some time from floppy.
The PC does not have a floppy drive, just USB from which it could boot.
Hmm, I would say that you have no access to BIOS, and no boot menu so that you can select second drive to boot from, which would be the clean solution. The USB should be the same story as a floppy. Insert USB stick and see what device it is, and then run grub-install with that device instead of /dev/floppy, but backup data on USB stick before grub-install, just in case. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2007/08/25 18:45 (GMT-0400) Alberto Santana apparently typed:
I have a desktop with 2 drives (sda and sdb). sda contains windows XP. Opensuse 10.2 (default installation) is on sdb. During the installation I had to put grub on the root partition of sdb. The machines are under a lease and we are NOT allow to modify the MBR. So the question is, how can I boot my linux from the windows xp boot manager?
Followed the instructions given here: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Booting_Linux_with_the_Windows_NT/2000/XP_Boot_Ma... but no luck. After selecting linux from the WinXP boot manager I end up with a text console shown the word GRUB.
It should work. I've done it before. Maybe the same basic instructions presented differently would prove successful: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/install-doz-after.html -- " It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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