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I have installed Open Suse 10.0 with winxp. Everything works fine but I have a minor problem. Everytime I log in to windows I get a message saying something like this " Your MBR has been modified, reactivate PCM?" I can choose from "YES , NO or CANCEL. If I choose yes, at statup I can no longer choose between SUSE, WINDOWS and SUSEFAILSAFE. I did choose yes once and after that I had to install suse again. Everything works fine if I just choose no however it's annoying so I was wondering if there is a easy way to solve this problem!?
When answering pls keep in mind that I am a newbie.
Did you install SuSE first, or XP? Sometimes XP doesn't like being installed after linux. Make sure you install XP then install SuSE. I run three computers that dual boot between XP and Mandrake, and I have yet to have a problem with warnings from the MBR. Also, check your bios configuration. I think I ran into a computer once that had a bios option for checking the MBR integrity on boot. If you have anything that scans the MBR for viruses it will see LILO/Grub as a virus and want to change it. Make sure you turn off any checks on the MBR. Good Luck.
Do a search - there is another query about this here. Are you using powercinema as in that other thread ???. If so, you will need to reinstall the Suse bootloader into a partition - not the MBR, and copy it over as in that thread.
This will mean using PCM to load the XP loader to load the Linux loader - what a piece of crap.
Originally posted by sabre307 Did you install SuSE first, or XP? Sometimes XP doesn't like being installed after linux. Make sure you install XP then install SuSE. I run three computers that dual boot between XP and Mandrake, and I have yet to have a problem with warnings from the MBR. Also, check your bios configuration. I think I ran into a computer once that had a bios option for checking the MBR integrity on boot. If you have anything that scans the MBR for viruses it will see LILO/Grub as a virus and want to change it. Make sure you turn off any checks on the MBR. Good Luck.
I installed XP first then Suse.
I really would like to check if I have a option in BIOS which checks MBR integrity on boot but I don't know how to do that.
Sorry for the delay but I have managed (in a cheap) way to solve my problem. I just uninstalled a software callaed PowerDVD Cyberlink on windows and after that I never get the message about MBR.
I don't know why unintalling that software fixed my problem!? I'll just leave that to you guys, if you find any explanation pls post it hear so I can learn a bit about it.
However I have a new problem so I don't know whether I should start a new thread?
I have 80gb hardisk and when I enter partitioner I can see this :
As you can see I have 24.4 GB that I can't use. I want to give that(merge) this partition to the XP partiiton. I tried to do that with yast partitioner but id didn't work.
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