[SOLVED] Dual boot W7 with SuSE 11.2

[Omar_E]

I'm having reeeal trouble doing this

My hard drive has 2 partitions - One NTFS (W7) and the other unallocated for the Linux install. I boot using the SuSE install DVD and install to the empty partition, finish the install, reboot and it boots to SuSE (which looks very nice, I must add), but it's corrupted the W7 MBR. I get all my stuff back in W7 but I'm a little stumped as to why I can't get the SuSE install right.

It's something small but I don't know what it is.

I have a tiny bit of experience in Linux but not much.

Also, I'd like to load W7 as default with the option of loading SuSE, which I beleive this needs some editing of the GRUB boot loader, but I don't know how to do this.

Any idea how I'd do this?

Thanks

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Doesn't SuSe GRUB Menu has an option to boot up Windows 7? Does it throw any error message?

Post contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst file and output of fdisk -l command here.

su -
/sbin/fdisk -l

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[Omar_E]

Hiya.

I gave it another go with complete success. I used the expert setup again and saw the previous installation, and rewrote over that. Also in the summary section I set Windows to boot first. I wasn't really sure what made it cock up in the first place.

All working now so it's okay! I knew it was something small!

Thanks again!