**ALMOST COMPLETE**
With everone's help, I was able to get both my Win 2K and my Suse 9.1 booting off the hard drive(s) w/no conflicts. :) It is NOT possible to have GoBack installed along with Grub (I tried) on the same drive. With Grub in first, when you try to add GB, you get a message saying that a program with the same "signature" as GB is installed, and that GB cannot be installed on this machine. This is with GB already installed, but de-activated. To get my dual-boot/dual drive working I did the following: *Repaired my Windoze MBR with Recovery Console - see earlier posts for gory details. *Booted from the Suse CD 1 to my existing Suse installation. This option is buried 3 layers down in the install option - it should be in the first screen you see (sigh). *Used YaST's boot config option to replace Grub on my C: (/dev/hda) MBR. Also checked drive boot order (hda/hdb) in the same config menu. So it works - but I still WANT GoBack if at all possible. I tried loading Grub on the same drive as my Suse install, and changing the boot order - but it didn't work - I kept booting back into Windoze, no matter how I set things. Some clues: When Linux went in, it seemed to add several partitions to my D: drive for its own use. Drive setup now looks like this in Windoze: Windoze boot = C: = /dev/hda = 6.4 gig (the whole drive) CD player = D: = /dev/hdc = u know how big Linux drive = E: = /dev/hdb = Linux install = 22.5GB used by Linux, PLUS a free space of 9.32GB that Windoze sees as writeable. Under Linux the drives are: hda1 = /windows/C = mounted ???? = /sys = not mounted = maybe hdb2? hdb1 = /Windows/D = mounted hdb3 = / = mounted I've tried installing Grub different places and changing both the read order of the drives, and the BIOS boot order. Should I put Grub on hdb1, or hdb3? I want to boot off the second drive, (E: ), so I can (hopefully) put GoBack back on my C: Windoze drive. Comments? Do I ask for too much here? Thanks to all! |
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