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Originally Posted by binjured
The boot order right now goes CD-ROM -> Harddrive, so it shouldn't be an issue. As far as I know there's no bios setting on my mobo that lets me specify which drive it should boot from.
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1) Boot with your SUSE installation CD.
NOTE: Winbarf-XP REQUIRES, DEMANDS, INSISTS, WON'T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY, to be in the 1st ACTIVE PRIMARY partition of the booting hard disk (a.k.a. the infamous "C:" drive). In other words, when the user is installing Windumb-XP, its user interface only offers to either A) Clobber whatever was already there, or B) Abort install. Hmm . . . it was beneath Microbe$od to write code to install in another partition, eh? Not even FREE software is that lame. So give it what it wants--GRUB will handle it.
2) So, go to the EXPERT Partitioning panel, and make a partition for Wincrud-XP in the 1st ACTIVE hard disk (should be the one at the top of the list with an "a" designation as in "/hda" or "/sda"), select PRIMARY type partition, of NTFS type--but DO NOT FORMAT it (Windumb-XP bleats like a little kid for his toy insisting it wants to format it itself.)
3) For Linux, use your SATAs. In addition to "/" partition, and "/home" partition, it is a cleaner practice to have a "/boot" part1tion, formatted to ext3 file system, size 50 MiB will be enough. There's good reasons for doing such. Don't forget to select "/boot" from the "Mount on:" drop down list.
4) Create your /, /swap, /tmp, /var, /opt, /home, /etc, partitions . . . it's good practice, as good a feeling as replacing the old beat up chain in your bicycle with a shiny new one.
5) Once the Partitioning panel accepts your settings with no complaints, go back to the Boot Options panel: select GRUB for your boot manager.
5) Go into the panel for Boot Loader options:
--Select the option to put the boot loader in the "/boot" partition.
--Then go to a subpanel (forgot the name), you click on a button for more boot options:
--Select the option to make the boot partition you chose in the previous step the ACTIVE or BOOTING partition.
AND
--Select the option to reload the MBR (Master Boot Record) with generic code. This satisfies the Winstink-XP.
6) Make other config changes you want . . . and you're ready to move on to the software selections panel.
Cheers, hope this helps.