[nmglug] triple boot ( xp/linux/linux )

Gary Sandine gars at laclinux.com
Mon Apr 10 22:04:58 PDT 2006


Luis,

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:49 -0700, luis pena wrote:
> I currently have my laptop as a dual boot w/ xp and fedoracore5. I
> have 1MB of swap and an extended partition for my /home directory. I
> tried installing suse on a free ext3 partition that I created in part.
> magic. Instead, suse took over the bootloader and only gave me the
> option to boot into xp, suse and suse (safe mode). I should have took
> a look at the menu.lst file before I freaked...but breakings things
> are a part of learning. I'm back to square 1: xp w/ fc5 dual boot.
> Would anyone give some suggestions on approaching a triple boot,
> prefferably an individual familiar with the suse install process.

Is SuSE still installed?  What did you do to recover your xp / fc5 dual
boot?  What does your partition table look like?

Regards,
-- 
Gary Sandine <gars at laclinux.com>





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