[lug] Re: need help immidiatly

Hmm, SuSE 9.3 should automatically configure the bootloader to boot windows if it finds a windows partition on the harddisk.

 

If you want to be able to boot both Linux and Windows from the MBR (without faffing with CDs), then it is perfectly possible. Firstly do exactly as gcopper said above, and then when you've booted linux from your boot CD.

 

Open YAST from within KDE or GNOME (kdesu /etc/sbin/yast2), then look about for an icon which mentions bootloader settings. Clik on the icon. In the window that comes up change the setting which says 'leave code in the MBR untouched' (something like taht), to something like 'replace code in MBR'. Hit OK, and then reboot.

 

Now in linux again...

 

Now you need to edit a file which is likely to be called menu.lst that will be somewhere in /boot/grub

 

Once you have opened this file (you need to either be logged in as root or use the sudo command e.g. sudo pico /boot/grub/menu.lst) you will need to add these lines at the end:

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)

makeactive
chainloader +1
 

note that you should change the (hd0,1) to represent the partition where your Windows is stored, the first number is your harddisk number (this will be 0 if you have only one harddisk), and the second is the partition number (0 is the first partition, 1 is the second etc.)

Save the file.

Reboot Linux, you should see the option to boot WINDOWS XP

If this doesn't work, have a poke around some of these pages:

http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=405

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=387019

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4622