Comments on: Dual-booters, beware the XP installer. http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2007/11/05/dual-booters-beware-the-xp-installer/ Jing Xue's Weblog Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:14:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: miles zarathustra http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2007/11/05/dual-booters-beware-the-xp-installer/#comment-61553 miles zarathustra Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:45:20 +0000 http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2007/11/05/dual-booters-beware-the-xp-installer/#comment-61553 I set up a XP/Suse dual boot, and had some similar experiences. (I didn't succeed in wiping out my partition table, though!) The first item of note was that XP couldn't see the SATA drive without a driver, which it insisted be on a floppy disk. Interesting, because the system did not come equipped with a floppy drive. So I had to dig out an old drive and have it hanging out of the machine by wires... SuSE installed without a flaw. My general strategy for installing dual boots is to let windows go first and put it in the bottom partition, so it thinks it's boss, and doesn't stress out about booting from a sector whose ID > 65536. Linux is a lot more flexible in terms of where it can boot from (e.g. logical drives) I was able to use grub to boot both, which works well since grub has good debugging modes (compared with the M$ bootloader, which essentially has none) OK, back to work! -= miles =- I set up a XP/Suse dual boot, and had some similar experiences. (I didn’t succeed in wiping out my partition table, though!)

The first item of note was that XP couldn’t see the SATA drive without a driver, which it insisted be on a floppy disk. Interesting, because the system did not come equipped with a floppy drive. So I had to dig out an old drive and have it hanging out of the machine by wires…

SuSE installed without a flaw.

My general strategy for installing dual boots is to let windows go first and put it in the bottom partition, so it thinks it’s boss, and doesn’t stress out about booting from a sector whose ID > 65536. Linux is a lot more flexible in terms of where it can boot from (e.g. logical drives) I was able to use grub to boot both, which works well since grub has good debugging modes (compared with the M$ bootloader, which essentially has none)

OK, back to work!

-= miles =-

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