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Old 10-30-2006, 06:48 AM   #1
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How to boot into safe mode in XP when i run dual boot XP/suse?


How do i boot into safe mode in XP when i run dual boot
XP home SP2/suse 10.1?
 
Old 10-30-2006, 06:51 AM   #2
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look into yast.
 
Old 10-30-2006, 06:57 AM   #3
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I am not very good with yast , witch future shall i go into in yast? I am a very much

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Old 10-30-2006, 12:31 PM   #4
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When the bootloader displays the OS menu selection, select "Windows" and then press enter. And immediately after, Press F8.

And not once - oh no! Press F8 and keep pressing F8 as if your life was depending on it. At that point in time, the only goal in your life should be to press the button F8. It should be almost as if you were sent to this earth with the sole purpose of pressing F8 again and again and again until you get a Windows "Repair and / or Emergency Menu".

If you don't succeed the first time, try, try again.

Repeat.

// You can't boot into "Safe Mode" in XP after you've booted Linux! Remember kids - only one OS can be booted on a PC at one time. Unless, of course we're talking about virtualization and such, which is an entirely different ballgame.

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Old 10-30-2006, 05:50 PM   #5
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look into yast.
Pardon me, but what does YaST have to do with WinXP?
 
Old 11-02-2006, 03:28 AM   #6
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Pardon me, but what does YaST have to do with WinXP?
if pc boots into suse and not windows you can set default to windows in yast (if he is using grub,lilo). But he/she has problem with F8...sorry not linux issue.
 
  


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