Problem with Dual Booting Windows XP and Suse linux

[daflores]

Hello everyone,

I am having a problem with dual booting windows xp and suse linux 10.0. I had the dual boot system working good before. However, I re-installed windows xp and now it always boots on windows xp. I have each OS on a separate disk, with linux being the slave. Any ideas on how I can get to dual boot again?

Thank you,
David

[valemon]

Welcome to LF!

Boot from your openSuSE cd/dvd. After the license agreement, you'll be prompted for installation type select "other" then "repair installed system". There will be an option in expert tools "install new boot loader". This should do the trick

[vengeance]

well i had the same prob just boot from your opensuse dvd click on the update option.when your suse is fully operational u then need to edit your /grub/menu.lst with this

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

change it to hd1 if its the 2nd hd where ur XP is present
go to this thread i had the same problems

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...ring-help.html

[daflores]

Welcome to LF!

Boot from your openSuSE cd/dvd. After the license agreement, you'll be prompted for installation type select "other" then "repair installed system". There will be an option in expert tools "install new boot loader". This should do the trick

Thanks valemon and vengeance, I am the proud owner of a dual system again. Haven't played with linux for a while and starting to catch up again. I'll definitely be sticking to the forums here. On another topic, is there a way to update suse 10.0 from yast?

[gogalthorp]

Yes you need to run

Yast- Software-Online update setup to get a update address from Novel.

This will give you an update repository source for the base installation

here are a couple of help pages on repositories in general

Package Sources - openSUSE-Community

AddSource - openSUSE-Community

Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE

Hacking SUSE 10 OSS - Software in Review