Re: DUAL BOOT XP

A couple of things:

A) did you put XP on the 1st partition on the 1st HDD, remember that often 
times many OEM's will have hidden partitions on a hard drive as well as the 
fact that Windows often gets very cranky (as in won't boot) unless it has 
access to hda1.  So this may make dual boot problematic at best.  Case in 
point HP and Compaq (as well as others) will hide a partition set up for 
thier version of an M$ OS installaion.   Given that this was 1st put on in 
the factory and often the system comes with a restore disk that is setup to 
deal with this hidden partition using the OEMs disk is doable, but problems 
may often occur when one tries to use an "off the shelf" version of the OS,

B) did you install SuSE 8.x before or after installing XP?  In my experience 
if you install the OSes out of order you will either not be able to boot to 
Linux not be able to boot to XP depending.  I have found that one needs to 
install Windows first, making sure that all the partitions are formatted for 
Windows (this may or may not make a difference but I have had less problems 
this way).  Then install SuSE.  Now with XP I had to go back again and 
reinstall XP, so the dumb thing wouldn't puck because it could find a boot 
record (M$ version of a dirty install with existing XP OS already in place) 
then boot from the SuSE disk and redue the boot/MBR to the disk with 
LILO/Grub.

Take a look at the SuSE supports and find/search for dual booting with NT or 
XP.  Your not the 1st to have this problem.  I have had more problems setting 
up my dual boot with XP than with previous versions of Windows.  Also, I've 
never installed dual boot on a laptop so their maybe finities to doing that 
that I'm unaware of.

HTH, Curtis



On Sunday 24 November 2002 15:03, Andy Pickard wrote:
> Hi I am having problems trying to get suse 8 and xp to dual boot on my
> Toshiba satellite 1900 lap top I tried and couldn't get XP to boot at
> all as I need Xp for work I had to recovery disk back to Xp. will Suse 8
> dual boot with XP I have not set XP to nfts its still fat 32 I run 8 on
> my home desktop dual booting with mandrake 8.2 no problem any Ideas
> gratefully recieved
>
> Andy

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