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Dual boot XP Pro and SuSE 10.0 Prob
Name: helms Date: April 3, 2006 at 00:28:11 Pacific OS: XP Pro & SuSE 10.0 CPU/Ram: AMD Opturon Product: HP
Comment:
Having problems booting XP after installing SuSE 10.0. Both on the same drive but different partitions. SuSE boots fine but selecting "windows" resets back to the screen that lets you select SuSE or windows.
I have an /etc/grub.conf with: setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,5) (hd0,5) setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,5) quit
I was planning to edit boot.ini and adding the linux boot image:
Name: 3Dave Date: April 3, 2006 at 07:37:32 Pacific
Reply:
Post up the whole of your grub.conf. There should be a section for windoze looking something like: title=XP rootnoverify=(hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive What partition is each operating system on?
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Response Number 2
Name: mohanjohn Date: April 12, 2006 at 02:49:59 Pacific
Reply:
For SUSE 10.0 the configuration file for GRUB is /boot/grub/menu.lst. Post the contents of this file. Should throw up some light.
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