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

[Gary Sandine]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:54:58PM -0700, luis pena wrote:
> Nah I wiped out the partition suse was on. Here's my part table:
> 
> 30GB ntfs | 10 GB ext3 (fc5) | swap 1MB | 5GB /home extended partition |           < 15GB unallocated space

k.  What did you do to get fc5 GRUB back in the master boot record?
Unless I'm confused about what has happened so far, you could have
left SuSE installed, did whatever you did to use fc5 GRUB again,
then add an entry to that GRUB config to boot SuSE.


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> Gary Sandine <gars at laclinux.com> wrote: 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?

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Gary Sandine <gars at laclinux.com>