Lots of information in these forums regarding SBC DSL with dynamic IP that I have read. I have 2 hdd's and like the rest, trying to acquire a dual boot setup with SBC dsl on both.

I followed the posts I have read thus far concerning dual boot with 2 HDDS, and this is what I have done. I wiped out 80GB HDD and partitioned in a 70/30 format to use for Windows. The 70 for NTFS and the 30 for Fat32 to be shared data by Linux. I setup Win2k and it boots fine as a single drive. I then took my 2nd HDD which is 40GB and installed Suse 9.0 and it boots fine by itself. I kept the 40GB Suse drive as master, and hooked the Win2k 80GB drive as slave. Both are recognized in CMOS.

I went into /boot/grub and edited the menu.lst to include these parameters at the end of the file:

title Windows 2K

map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

If I remove the Suse drive, I can still boot to Win2K normally. With a dual boot setup as above, I can boot to Suse 9.0 fine. The problem is, I still get this error when choosing Windows from the Grub gui when trying to dual boot:

Booting 'windows'
rootnoverify (hd1, 0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
chainloader +1

Wondering what I may have done wrong...

If that's not bad enough, the other issue is getting DSL with SBC to work in Suse. I have an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with 2 ethernet onboard ports. The 3com(Eth0) module is loaded, but Yast finds an unconfigured DSL device. The other ethernet port onboard is a Realtek. Do I have to also load a module for the 2nd NIC? Or can the DSL be configured on just the one 3Com?

I have gone to the DSL option in Yast, and entered my user information, but it still cannot connect. I have tried to run adsl-setup, but apparently the SUSE distro doesn't have that. SBC uses 151.164.1.8, 151.164.1.1 and 151.164.11.201 as DNS. I know I may have to add these manually to the resolv.conf, but wasn't sure if I have to have the 2nd(Realtek) NIC module loaded first. I guess my next step may be to try the Roaring Penquin software I have read; or purchase a 4-port Linksys router to configure DHCP for me.

I'm a newb, but I'm learning a lot really quick(thanks to this forum). Thank you all for the time you contribute to the rookies : )

On the 2 HDD dual boot issue, I redid everything again. I can see Windows as an option at the boot menu, but when I select it, my machine just reboots.

Anyone care to shed some light?

*crickets*

title windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1



thats my entry in grub for my windows installation.... the ntfs partition is the 1'st partition of the primary master drive. might wanna mosify that for your system and give it a whirl