can't dual boot xp and linux...help...

ashwinidubey · 08-29-2009, 01:20 AM

greetings you all linux monsters,

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....

ronlau9 · 08-29-2009, 06:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashwinidubey

greetings you all linux monsters,

boot loader is installed in root path.

i hope to get some help...

as toddler is learning....

So you change where GRUB should be installed if you like to dual boot ,
namely in MBR anyhow that is most linux users do
But if you like it you can use boot.ini to boot linux but that seems to be tricky

ashwinidubey · 08-29-2009, 07:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronlau9

So you change where GRUB should be installed if you like to dual boot ,
namely in MBR anyhow that is most linux users do
But if you like it you can use boot.ini to boot linux but that seems to be tricky

i will change it to mbr..
...

Thanks.

onebuck · 08-30-2009, 02:12 PM

Hi,

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