Topic: OpenSUSE Installation help please :)

[sam]

umm thats rather odd, when you installed fedora did you pay attention to what it said about the bootloader? this is where you might have to change how grubb works, it might not actually use that.

when you installed fedora did you click remove all existing linux partitions?

[sam]

I just installed Fedora on my system (I was using SUSE).

I dont have windows on this computer so I'm not sure how that will affect things (it shouldnt though as Grubb will deal with this). When you install it make sure you choose advanced configuration of the MBR. Choose the actual hard disc this is on. Ensure, before this, that you chose to wipe all linux partitions. You might also find that you need to you the LBA2 (i think thats what the abbvrv) option - I forgot this the first time and screwed up the installation.

Hope this is of some use.

[Flanjeuk]

i tried what you suggested and i got the error again, i searched google about error 22, and found that with the XP disc i could make a new MBR, so i did that (i went into the console and typed 'fixmbr' and now GRUB is totally gone) so im going to try and install Fedora again and see if that helped.

[sam]

yes i was going to suggest that if the above didnt work. It seems that the SUSE installation messed it up before. I'd suggest you do the above this time or similar with fedora paying close attention to that section anyways.

good luck!

[Flanjeuk]

this is really getting on my nerves now.

the installation went perfectly fine (with LBA32) then i restart like it says and it just loads windows (no bootloader came up at all), ok maybe i can't use LBA32. i just tried again without LBA32 and the same thing. So i have no idea what to do now. at least its not a messed up bootloader i suppose, but still **** sake.

[sam]

this mbr issue with windows can be a right bitch!!

At least you now know how to get out the problem now.

When you are setting up Fedora which hard drive is it putting the mbr on to? If it isnt putting it on the right disc it will not affect the windows installation and so just boot into this, without going to grubb first.

When you are configuring fedora make sure it is set to install the mbr on the windows hard drive (probably hda).

you can also configure the boot loader below - id recommend you choose windows as your default os.

[Flanjeuk]

finally, im posting this message in Linux!

to answer your question:
i was putting the MBR onto hda

i had another search through google, and found someone else with the EXACT same problem, and he told me to boot with the Fedora CD, and go into the linux rescue part and type the following:

chroot /mnt/sysimage

grub-install --recheck dev/hda

reboot
upon reboot up came GRUB and here i am!

thanks a lot for all your help sam

(and btw, i quite like linux so far, just gotta try and find a better MSN Messenger, don't like that crappy GAIM)

[Flanjeuk]

one other quick thing, i used my whole 80GB HDD for Fedora, how can i shrink down the partition so that i can have a 60GB space for stuff i want to view from both XP and Fedora?

[Sandra]

You need something like partition magic which will resize your partitions without losing data  

[Anonymous]

hmm, Partition Magic won't let me do it, according to Partition Magic the whole hard drive is full. and according to WinXP, its totally empty :?

ill just leave it for now i really can't be bothered at the moment.

[sam]

there is a way of doing it in linux...i just downloaded something similar in the fedora updates... look through the hardisk setup in fedora.

glad i could be of some assistance.

I'm sure what you found will be useful.

Personally I like Gaim, but it depends what version you have...check ifyou have the latest.

[sam]

btw I just came across a [guide]  on how to dual boot fedora - with some rather odd looking screen captures, guess its a good way of doing it when you on the install mode.

[Flanjeuk]

i cant find jack poo in Fedora about Harddisk Setup, only 'Disk Management' which is for the floppy and cd-rom drives, thats no use.

i updated GAIM and its a lot nicer, i see what you mean. still cant use my own display picture though

I found that Fedora dual boot guide when you first seggested Fedora and thats what made me decide i would download it.

[sam]

oh ok!!

As for fedora I think its disk druid.

Also there is more options in the system settings menu - but this depends what you installed and also which GUI you are using. I'm using GNOME as I prefer this to KDE (I use GNOME on a solaris machine at uni so I'm used to it).

give gaim time...it will get better. It is getting there. It has some good options. I bet if you look in the dev sections of the gaim site you might find an addon or someone working on the code for this.

[Flanjeuk]

i can not find that disk thing anywhere

i dont have that "more options" in the menu, i only used the first 2 installation disks

I use GNOME aswel, seems nice. it was KDE in SuSE as far as i know, mayb its KDE i have the graphics problem with...