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Hello, this is what I have :
Computer with 2 hard drives. Drive 1 "sda" has windows installed and I want to leave it totally alone!! A forum member told me how to straighten out problems with this drive and it is now working great!
I want to install SUSE open on drive 2, "sdb".
I understand how to create the partitions, this is not a problem!
My problem is how to address the boot loading process (totally don't understand). I want the option of identifying what operating system I want to come up when the system is booting up (a whatever boot menu).
Can someone explain and help? The menu's for booting make no sense to me whatsoever.
LK
PS. I don't want load points to drive 1 (sda) in drive "B" (Linux) !
I want total independent control of drive 1 and drive 2 on startup!
If the new drive sdb is completely empty, during the install, when you get to the partitioning section, one of the options should be "use available free space". It should offer to do this on the new drive, and give you a suggestion for partitioning. If not you can select the manual option. For whatever partitions you have on drive 1 sda, just select mount points. I generally use /win_x, where x is the Windows assigned drive letter.
When you get to the "install bootloader" section of the install it should have recognised the Windows OS on drive 1, so select "Install to MBR" or "install to sda". This should put it in the boot sector of drive 1 replacing the Windows bootloader, and you will get a menu to select Suse or Windows on boot. You can set a delay, and a default.
I recommend using the default GRUB bootloader. If you have problems search for "Dual Booting Windows" or "Dual boot with GRUB" or some combination thereof.
Linux doesn't care where it boots from, but Windows XP and Vista need to be on the first active partitioner or at least on the first drive. GRUB works fine, and I currently have machines happily dual and and even triple booting various Linux, with Windows 98. 2K or XP.
If the new drive sdb is completely empty, during the install, when you get to the partitioning section, one of the options should be "use available free space". It should offer to do this on the new drive, and give you a suggestion for partitioning. If not you can select the manual option. For whatever partitions you have on drive 1 sda, just select mount points. I generally use /win_x, where x is the Windows assigned drive letter.
When you get to the "install bootloader" section of the install it should have recognised the Windows OS on drive 1, so select "Install to MBR" or "install to sda". This should put it in the boot sector of drive 1 replacing the Windows bootloader, and you will get a menu to select Suse or Windows on boot. You can set a delay, and a default.
I recommend using the default GRUB bootloader. If you have problems search for "Dual Booting Windows" or "Dual boot with GRUB" or some combination thereof.
Linux doesn't care where it boots from, but Windows XP and Vista need to be on the first active partitioner or at least on the first drive. GRUB works fine, and I currently have machines happily dual and and even triple booting various Linux, with Windows 98. 2K or XP.
This worked fine! I appreciate your input and everything is booting really great. I think I screwed up the installation but that is another post, thank you.
LK
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