Hi!!! :-) I left the installer, to do its job and the setup has completed succesfully! ;-) Now, I have the following configuration: --------- /dev/hda2 fat32 1gb /dev/hda1 ntfs 95gb /dev/hda3 extented 90gb /dev/hda5 ntfs 71gb /dev/hda6 linux-swap 2gb /dev/hda7 ext3 20gb unallocated 6gb /dev/hda4 ext3 38gb -------- Note: GRUB is NOT installed at MBR! However, I still can't boot to Linux! :-( After rebooting (when setup completed), I received the following error message: "Booting from local disk... GRUB Loading stage 1.5. GRUB Loading , please wait... Error 18." Then nothing. My system was unbootable (from disk). I booted at GAG (gag.sf.net) installation floppy, I installed it, and booted to Windows once again! :-( Then, since I was online again, I asked a friend of mine (a Debian user), and pointed me to this text (about GRUB's error message):
18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block address beyond the end of the BIOS translated area. This generally happens if your disk is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for (E)IDE disks on older machines or larger than 8GB in general).
I'm suspecting, that this bug happened, just because my stupid BIOS is fairly old and has NO proper LBA support for bigger than 80GB disks. Please note that: a) Elite has abandoned my motherboard, so there is NO BIOS update. b) Ontrack's LBA support utility that WD (as most disks manufacturers) provides for free, never worked properly for me. c) Modern OSes (recent Unises and WinXP SP1 and later, had their own LBA drivers, so they're not depending on BIOS. eg. a recent Linux LiveCD will never face a problem of that type). Anyway. I'm using GAG for years, for booting to WinXP and FreeDOS. I'm thinking that since GAG is Linux based (as GRUB is), if I can install GRUB at MBR, maybe this solves the problem. Can I install GRUB (or LILO or any other boot manager that is openSUSE compatible), on MBR? Ehm...Hmm... How? I don't know! :-) PS: Those are just my thoughts. Not necesarrilly correct. :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org