Dual boot Suse11.2 and Windows XP

[branisd]

Hi,
to enable dual boot , should I set booting from "/" instead from MBR (using Grub).
XP is on /dev/sda1 and Suse11.2 on /dev/sda2?
By the way is there a way to install in text mode as I get blurred screen due to my Nvidia graphic card, so I cant read it.
Thanks

[reed9]

Hi,
to enable dual boot , should I set booting from "/" instead from MBR (using Grub).
XP is on /dev/sda1 and Suse11.2 on /dev/sda2?
By the way is there a way to install in text mode as I get blurred screen due to my Nvidia graphic card, so I cant read it.
Thanks

You can install GRUB to the MBR.

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[44139]

Super Grub will help-package guides grub install process and does the hard parts for you. Download and keep on a separate CD. Handles almost every kind of grub bootup. Reas intutive, ok for noobs+.

[sles1983]

grup-install /dev/sda2

[devils casper]

Hi,
to enable dual boot , should I set booting from "/" instead from MBR (using Grub).
XP is on /dev/sda1 and Suse11.2 on /dev/sda2?
By the way is there a way to install in text mode as I get blurred screen due to my Nvidia graphic card, so I cant read it.
Thanks

Let installer install GRUB in default location, MBR. Most of installers, including SuSe Installer, detect Windows OS correctly and setup dual boot automatically.

If you install GRUB in other than MBR, you have to configure Windows Boot Loader or use third party boot loader.

grup-install /dev/sda2

As I mentioned earlier, if you install Grub in /dev/sda2, you have to configure Windows Boot Loader thats not a recommended to new users.

Btw, its grub-install not grup-install. I know its a typo only.

[linuxforever]

Sure, devils casper, you are right!
Normally the default action of GRUB should do the right thing.

First, the best boot-loaders or boot-managers are of course Lilo (LinuxLoader) or GRUB.
Lilo did work fantastic, but GRUB has apparently taken over the job.
In both you can place them in in any partition on any disk.
I agree that the best choice is the MBR of a disk.
But the option to place it anywhere you have always.
I.e. the best boot-loaders are the linux boot-loaders.

But to use the MBR (Master-Boot-Record) of a disk the disk should be flagged bootable.
And you know what happens if a disk is added in a windows environment.
Eventually it hasn't even a primary partition.
But even if it has, I have seen disks that were not flagged bootable.
Windows calls this making a partition active.
But we know the only way of looking how it actually is, is to use partedmagic.
That tells you in what state every disk actually is.