Carl Parrish wrote:
> Well okay I'm hoping you guys can help me make it not a disaster
> I just tried to help a friend by installing Suse 10.1 on a dual boot
> over Win XP media center on her new HP Pravillion a1600n (btw has anyone
> else ever noticed that its *much* harder to get "friends" going with
> linux?) Anyways the Suse 10.1 install seemed to go okay (I've got a
> network issue but I'm pretty sure I can figure that one out) But when I
> rebooted Grub gave me four options
> 1) Suse 10.1 - this one boots fine
> 2) Windows1 - hangs
> 3) Windows 2 - PC Recovery Screen
> 4) Linux recovery.
> When I try to boot Window 1 I get a black screen display then "chain
> loader (hd 0, 0) +1, then it hangs. When I try Windows 2 I get a
> recovery tool (I'm thinking if I use this it will blow away Suse). So I
> checked /boot/grub/menu.lst it has chain loader(hd0,0) +1 for Windows 1
> and chainloader(hd0,1)+1 for Windows 2. I'm guessing I have to make some
> changes in grub but no clue what. Any ideas or docs?
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Never mind I convinced her to let me blow away Windows and install it as
a virtual server.
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