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Hello everyone. I am newbie and i have a problem with installation suse 10. My system has winxp pro and i tried to install suse 10. I select grub and mbr install, all the installation is ok up to the time need reboot. Then i get a grab 1.5 error message 5.
I tried to install to different place grub but the same message appear.
Can anyone help?
MBR install on the first disk is the correct approach. However, I have often had problems with GRUB. If the option is available, you should simply try to install LILO instead of GRUB, that will most likely do the trick.
Before you install your first linux distro, unless doing it on a clean drive, where you cannot erase anything BACK-UP all work. If you are unable to get into windows, find your back up disk and restore your system.
Then back-up, then try again, but this time erase windows clean off and start again. This will mean you can format the complete drive, including the MBR, and start afresh.
I have found that this makes things a lot less scary if things go wrong.
How did you install Linux? Had you created empty partition or used SuSE partitioner as "Suggested"? If as "suggested" then it's probably bad for you. To install Linux you need empty unformated partition with at least 5GB of space to have smth good on it. And YES, indeed, You should have created backup of your data
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