SuSE10.2 Winxp et al

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Hi All

After much fiddling, I finally managed to install SuSE one one of my drives.
A long and painful story, but the crux is, in order to do so, I had to physically unplug my default drive (Windows C: ). Of course, having reconnected the default drive, the system does not "see" the new OS.

The only way I can start SuSE, is to boot from the installation DVD, and of course SuSe doesn't "see", or mount (Windows C: )

From the reading I have done, I understand that (Windows C: ) needs to be mounted, preferably at boot time, I also understand I will need to configure some files.

fdisk -l shows :

Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9708 9964 2064352+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 1276 9707 67730040 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 10199 81923436 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 10200 20398 81923467+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 20399 30401 80349097+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA)

Disk /dev/hdg: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdg1 * 1 20022 160826683+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdh: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdh1 1 9964 80035798+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Where /dev/hdg is the Windows XP pro boot drive.

I believe I will need to edit fstab, which currently looks like :

/dev/hda1 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hdh1 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /windows/J vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/sda1 /windows/L ntfs users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

I assume the edited line will be identical to
dev/sda1 etc, but substituting hdg for sda1, and changing the label.

I do not yet know how to mount at boot?

Then, I think, I will have to run the grub boot loader utility to configure the new setup?

In a nutshell, I would like help to

1. Mount dev/hdg at boot (I think the mount point is /windows?)
2. Edit fstab to show new drive
3. Configure grub to give me the option of booting SuSe, or XP

or
help with boot.ini (WinXP) to achieve the above.

If needs be, I can set my BIOS to boot Suse drive first if that makes life easier?

I would really appreciate any advice, 'cos booting from the installation disk takes nearly forever.

Thank you in advance.

[devils casper]

you have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst file only. check this thread.






Casper