On 4/17/07, Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
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As a counter-experience, I recently installed OpenSUSE 10.2 on my new
laptop that came pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Basic. Straight
out of the Toshiba box from Best Buy I had to do nothing special and the
Linux installer configured GRUB just fine. I have a coworker who bought
another Toshiba laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium and installed the
same way, no issues.
I do not repeat these stories to discount your hard won experience and
excellent document. I only point out that the problems you describe did
not happen to me, with an OEM install of Windows Vista. Either the
OpenSUSE 10.2 installer is smart enough to work around it or some
computer makers are installing Vista in such a way that it does not
cause the problem. Or, something else. ;^)
Alan
Alan,
Would you mind sending me some information? Specifically, the BCD info from Vista and the grub menu info from your /boot/grub/menu.lst. For Vista, open a command window as administrator and type bcdedit /enum > /anypath/bcdenum.txt (or leave off the redirect if you know how to copy/paste from a command window in Vista).
I am finding more info on the web about the Vista changes so am interested in what Novell did. For example http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529 shows the same stuff where someone installs XP after Vista.
Eric,
I will be happy to but I am holding off proliferating my artice a few days since I may need an update for situations like Alan pointed out.
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