-----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:news@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of upscope Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:11 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse] Re: dual boot issues M Harris wrote:
On Sunday 25 January 2009 07:39, Dave wrote:
If not, would anyone be interested in helping me figure this one out? What happens... symptoms please?
I have my daughters ACER laptop dual booting between wishta and opensuse 10.3/ I had an interesting problem that I've never encountered... the first few times that wishta started it gave me a black screen and fatal startup errors... like it could tell that something was very wrong with the MBR and wasn't happy about it. On about the fourth bootup wishta began working "as normally as you might expect it too... it sucks..." and the dual boot has worked since---very strange behavior. I am wondering if they have finally rigged W7 so that dual boot will be a royal pain./ (sour grapes stuff?) ... just guessing of course. I don't plan running W7... and wouldn't even have wishta if it hadn't come preloaded on my daughter's ACER... we will probably drop it... it can't really do anything and I'm not about to buy any windows software!
An alternative maybe to install VirtualBox and install Vista on it. That eliminates the dual boot issues. I have openSUSE 11.1 with Virtualbox running XP. The only reason I keep XP is for TurboTax, it won't run under wine or codeweaver crossover pro.
I'm dual-booting Win7 and OpenSuse 11.1 just fine, each on its own primary partition. Since Win7 obliterates the master boot record, I installed it first =) Do it the other way round, and I think you have to boot from the Suse DVD and restore GRUB. -Adam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org