[SATLUG] Problems dualbooting XP and SUSE

[Wrkwatchr]

I had a similar problem with my HP Pavilion ze4400. I fought and fought
trying to get a dual boot with XP and RH9. I did all my reading on the
internet and discovered several recommendations that were similar...disable,
this, change that kind of recommendations. All of these were to no avail.
After several days of significant aggravation, I persevered and finally in a
users group reply that I found I discovered someone who had successfully
accomplished what I wanted to do...almost. Basically, I discovered my laptop
was not RH friendly, but it was SuSE friendly. I tried SuSE 8.2
professional, and it installed easily and has been working without a hitch.
My recommendation is that if RH/FC isn't working, try SuSE or other Distros
until you find one that works the way you want.

Hope this helps.

Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: satlug-bounces at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-bounces at satlug.org] On Behalf
Of John Ziriax
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 10:20 PM
To: john shanks; The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] Problems dualbooting XP and SUSE

John,

Sadly, there was not really a fix for some of the computers. According
to the theory we had at the time Grub changed the disk geometry table.
There are instructions for fixing the table on the web, but they
didn't work for the Sony desktop I was working on. From a brief review
there's a lot on the web about this. I don't think that it is entirely
limited to FC 2.

Here's this link we were following the afternoon. At least is did not
damage on the Sony.
http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/

Here's another link at RH.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg02143.html

Another suggested setting the BIOS for the HD to LBA instead of auto.
No joy for the Sony here either.

This links suggests a way to fix windows, but make sure you have a
Linux boot disk.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg01918.html


I'm wondering if this is an XP/Linux problem. Possibly intentional on
the part of.....
Am I getting paranoid?

Any how, I still have some reading to do. The bug didn't crop up in my
install of RHEL with XP on my Inspiron 8600.

Does anybody have anything to add from their experiences? I hate
seeing people at the installfest have such troubles and we did a
number of very successful installs. Including one on a dual processor
Dell with XP and FC 2!!! Go figure.

John

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:47:57 -0500, john shanks <johnshanks at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was at the SAC Installfest today, and I ended up putting SUSE 9 in
> dualboot with XP using LILO.  Unfortunately, when I try to boot into
> XP it hangs on the "Starting Windows" line and nothing happens after
> that.  I know that there were similar problems with a lot of the
> RedHat and Fedora installs you guys were doing and you found what the
> problem was, but I had to leave at 12.
> 
> Can you tell me what the fix was, and if its something I could do?
> _______________________________________________
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