bootsect.lnx for SuSE

[zao]

On Fedora installation, you can choose which path GRUB will go by checking something like "advanced configuration". That will allow you to choose to install on MBR or first partition. I have noticed some posters did not try that method.

[KernelPanic]

It's just a simple grub-install /dev/hda.
Provided of course that you have a config file in /boot/grub/

[Canadian Lover]

you can only install grub through linux. I can't use grub-install becauise it's a linux shell script. I can only boot windows  right now

[ September 20, 2004: Message edited by: Canadian Lover ]

[Orethrius]

quote:Originally posted by Canadian Lover:
you can only install grub through linux. I can't use grub-install becauise it's a linux shell script. I can only boot windows  right now

[ September 20, 2004: Message edited by: Canadian Lover ]

This sounds like a personal problem.  You have Windows, right?  Given that, and the fact that you're posting here, you have a live connection, right?  Download and burn Knoppix and install Grub that way.  Now your two remaining excuses are incompetence (which I refuse to believe) and laziness (which is probable, given my own tendency towards it        ).

[ September 20, 2004: Message edited by: Midnight Candidate/BOB ]

[insomnia]

quote:Originally posted by worker201:
Not on my computer, they don't.  But FC2 writes grub to the MBR during installation, and it might have some goofy args that it passes or something.

Seriously, the literature is available - I doubt you are the first person to ever be unable to install grub.  Google away.

This has nothing to do with Fedora.
Parted can corrupt the hard disk geometry from your partition table in any 2.6 installation.
Parted needs to get the right geometry from the kernel.
This isn't always correct using 2.6.
See:
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

PS: You can avoid this by adding the the rigth geometry when you boot for it's installation.
Use fdisk to see it's right size.

[ September 20, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]

[pofnlice]

Within the last 5 days I readded SuSE 9.1 and XP to dual boot on my machine. It dual boots through grub fine and SuSE did it all for me. I didn't even have to mess with the boot loader. Only problem I had was it couldn't create a swap file (some googling revealed this was due to the NTFS partition on hda1 (c)). So I don't have a swap file but SuSE was kind enough to tell me how to do it later then said "I'll finish the installation now, thank you."

I ran into similar problems though when I tried to set up my machine for XP on one disc and SuSE on the other. What I figured out was I basically had to use yast to tell grub where the boot info for XP was. Unfortunately, a childs finger loved hitting the power switch and crashed it all.

While reinstalling, I discovered it was much easier to install XP first one one drive only. Then Install SuSE on the second and tell it whre to put all those partitions and files. It's worked quite dreamy since. As soon as I unlazy myself, I'll put a swap partition back in.