On 9/15/2010 9:10 PM, John Perry wrote:
On 9/13/2010 7:36 PM, dwgallien wrote:
...At the openSUSE forums there is a great deal of info and assistance on this specific kind of problem, including a very good tutorial by one of the moderators. While the expertise on this mailing list is quite excellent, on the forums you'll find this ground has already been covered many times over and the mods have had a heckuva lot of practice. That said . . .
This did it for me. Thanks, dwgallien. And I didn't even have to come up on the forum; a detailed procedure was in the archives -- a search on "multi-boot" (thanks, Felix!) brought it up as the second hit. To summarize my experience; I partitioned the hd with a 20G first partition for opensuse, 50G second partition for xp, rest in extended partition. Couldn't find my wife's xp install disks, so I installed opensuse so I'd have something to work with. Installed xp when I found it; lost access to suse. Used PartedMagic live cd to get suse back. Used suse for a while, booted back into xp. Lost access to suse. Used PartedMagic live cd to get suse back; xp had marked suse partition unbootable, xp parition bootable. Went through this sequence several times. Finally worked up the courage to follow the forum tutorial (dd into an ntfs partition looks scary!). Now have a working dual-boot system, and know how to get the others when I decide to try them. By the way, when I select suse from the Windows bootloader, I get the complete grub with all the options -- desktop, failsafe, xen, and xp. So when I get around to qnx, I'll put it into the suse grub menu, which is much nicer than the Windows one. Thanks much, guys. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org