Hi all,
First off, my partitions:
[list=1][*]Windoze XP- NTFS about 60GB[*]Extended Partition(more on that later)[*]Linux Ext3 Partition 10 GB, to be formatted for Suse[/list=1]
In the extended partition:[list=1][*]Boot Partition =1GB[*]Swap[*]Ext 3 partition 700MB[/list=1]
I want to install SuSe (9.1 personal) on the 10GB partition. I want to be able to have a bootloader, AND be able to boot XP. Do I have to install GRUB on my hda, or can i put it on the boot partition????
i NEED TO BE ABLE TO BOOT XP!!!!!!



f.y.i, i will change my name.

You can install the bootloader to the MBR. I would recommend adding a FAT32 partition before you get going, just for simplicity. It makes sharing files between those two OSes much easier.
During the install of SuSe you should be asked about the bootloader and it should also set up WinXP for you.

** but first, read this:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/0...booting91.html

this is the way i did it-

deleted all partitions

made 2 partitons-made the fist one acitve-

boot from windows xp , install

after windows, take out xp and install suse cdrom, and boot from it

install it. -install bootloader in the mbr when it asks for where to install

one huge note-

to get computer to boot the dual boot- you have to go into the bios and have these settings on the hard drive-

go into stanard cmos settings-

click on you hard drive-either master or secondary master if this is where the hard drive is

have these settings-IDIE PRIMARY MASTER-AUTO
ACCESS MODE -LBA

if you don,t do this in the bios, will not be able to boot past post

If i can give you advice install Lilo not grub it harder to ged rid off grub than lilo... I have also problem with suse 9.2 and win XP on one pc. Actualy when i boot linux first than i give just reset and wanna boot winXP it stop in middle of booting XP so i have to shut down pc and boot xp again than its work normaly. I dont know where is problem with this. Does anybody hawe simmilar ?

JoyBook 5000 (benq)
Suse 9.2

what do you mean "harder to get rid of"? why would you want to get rid of it? if you feel you wanna go straight windows you can just do "fixmbr" and problem solved...Vincent Vegas got the right idea...btw, i have no problems dual booting with xp, but im also on separate drives...

actual fixmbr or fdisk /mbr dont work for some strange reaseon on my pc for grub, it work for lilo but not grub. To get rid off grub i used some program to revrite 1 anb 0 in partition... i dont remember exactli

the better way is to use boot manager of windows to dual boot your system. just installed grub or lilo in the first partition which your linux install in. then use linux bootable CD or grub for dos come into that system.
use dd command as "dd if=/dev/hda* of=linux.lnx bs=512 count=1" (* is the device no. of the partition wiich grub located in). then you can copy out this file to windows root directory. and modified boot.ini , add a line as c:\linux.lnx="Linux"
(linux is the name showned in windows boot manager, it can be whatever you want.) . reboot you will find linux in your boot menu of windows. and enjoy it.

Woah. Nice trick but...

Not my preference if I can help it (though there are times that it could come in handy). I liked fedoracorechris's idea better generally. The best idea in my opinion would be to simply put the boot loader in the mbr.

fedoracorechris:
You can do that, but I don't think it will work on a logical volume. I think you will need to make your /boot a primary partition for that idea to work. You would then use any one of a number of DOS/Windows utilities to "set the partition as active/bootable" (I think you can also do this with several linux utilities such as cfdisk). Basically speaking, the standard "run of the mill" mbr doesn't actually load an operating system. It just passes control to the boot sector of whatever partition is marked active. You can mark your /boot partition as active, and then change it back if you have trouble.

vladoportos:
Are you in 95/98/ME ? The fdisk command that comes with those is partially busted (at least the 98 one is). It will not even let you delete an NTFS partition. Win2000 and XP shouldn't have trouble with this (though I would like to know if they did).

I use XP