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i am a new born linux geek and trying to install suse 11 on my laptop pc.
260 gigs of hard drive.
windows pre-installed,
i have made
swap of 8 gigs
/ of 102 gbs
and asked boot loader grub.
every thing installed fine. but when it finished... i don't get the option for choosing os. it smoothly boots on windows xp. but i want dual boot
with option of having boot on both windows and linux
boot loader is installed in root path.
i hope to get some help...
as toddler is learning....
Google can point you to lots of how-tos about this, and there are lots of guides on this very site, that already answer this question. The openSUSE forums even have a how to:
This is (likely) your problem. Windoze can be used to dual boot this configuration, but it is not straightforward for new users. Better option is to re-install grub to the MBR, and let it handle the dual boot. You should be able to do this from the OpenSuse install CD, but it's been too long since I used OpenSuse - check the forums.
Simplest would be to just re-install OpenSuse and put grub in the MBR. Try this if you want to read up on grub.
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