I'm dual booting with xp. Xp installed to hdd(1) not 0 and is perfectly happy there. I also have a linux swap partition on disc 1. Disc 0 has a small ntfs partition and the main linux partition. Home is mapped to a separate hard raid array which was formatted and preloaded with data. The linux partitions were created and formated by installs that failed with a grub error - can't write to disc. I had several failures and tried a number of times and eventually for some unknown reason the install managed to get through the boot install part and rebooted. One noticeable thing was that it did not make any use of the existing swap partition and I had to manually remap it. On the install that rebooted it used it without any intervention from me. I have no idea why. Then came the problem. It didn't boot to suse. XP came up instead. No sign of the suse boot menu. I just happen to have an ancient copy of bootmagic so I installed that to C assuming that would boot. It didn't XP still came up. I swapped the boot priority over in the bios and low up came bootmagic. Booted suse and up came the menu and the install completed. It even changed the ownership of my old home directory and all worked ok. Rebooted and tried the windoze entry in bootmagic. Got a can't find ntldr message. Rebooted and this time went to suse. Suse bless it's cotton socks had created 2 windows menu entries even though only one of them could boot. Neither worked. Up comes grubs hard drive mapping bits and then the message can't find ntldr. (That's windozes boot manager.) Grub looks for it and starts it. I strongly suspect that this is all down to the suse installer assuming things without actually checking aggravated by xp not being on disc 0 but maybe booting from it in some fashion. Having made at least 3 xp installs and a lot more linux installs I don't want to do anymore. How do I get my machine to work with both xp and suse. John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org