__/ [Charlie] on Sunday 04 September 2005 15:55 \__
> James Knott wrote:
>> Charlie wrote:
>>
>>>Hi;
>>>
>>>I have a dual boot system XP Pro on the 1st drive and Suse 9.3 on the
>>>second. I want to get my Suse 9.3 on both drives (loose Windows).
>>>Is there any way I can do this and still be able to boot into the SUSE
>>>system. I would probably have to reformat the Widows drive because it is
>>>NTFS.
>>
>> Yes, all you have to do is reformat that partition and remove XP from
>> Grub.
>>
>
> Hi;
>
> Here is grub.conf.
> root (hd1,6)
> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0)
> /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd1,6)/boot/grub/menu.lst
> quit
>
> Windows is on hd0, So my guess is this is how it has to look:
> root (hd1,6)
> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2/boot/grub/stage2 0x8000
> (hd1,6)/boot/grub/menu.lst
> quit
>
> What do you think?
>
> Charlie
I was in the exact same situation a month ago. Houghi gave me detailed
instructions:
http://www.schestowitz.com/UseNet/2005/August_2005_2/msg00048.html
(see follow-ups and references at the bottom as well)
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/08/13/dual-partition-linux/
(some screenshot you may find useful above)
Hope it helps,
Roy
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