I’m not being lazy or anything just looking for some extra counsel. Okay I don’t want to have to go through dozens of crashes & attempts to fix my HDD again so I want to get this completely straight the first time. So don’t be afraid to get down to my level, I might be repeating a question that has already been addressed but that’s because I couldn’t understand the fix explanation.
Why not just include the GRUB fix in the disc …? Is the apparent simplicity of the problem deceiving ?
Okay I get the whole GRUB thing & the defrag & partitioning tell me if I’ve missed anything else.
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I’m using windows Vista & I’m getting real tired of it…
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P.S. I think my comp screen is still distorted I was beating it up when it refused to boot from the HDD or the discs…
The konsole is found in Linux.
The post you quoted by @swerdna was talking about repairing / adjusting the bootloader once you have installed SUSE.
It’s not so much a fix. More ‘lets get it right now’. I could install on a Vista machine forever and it will always work, simply because I understand HOW to install SUSE/Linux.
Just make sure you have a backup of important data and a way to re-install Vista if you mess up.
Simply put, I would look at partitioning your drive to create 3 partitions to be used by SUSE (/) (/home) (swap)
If you don’t want to use grub bootloader you could consider: Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies
Thanks it’d probably work be easier if Microsoft would label these things…
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Okay I know the one on the other HD is what it uses for that disk management thing & I see my HDD but wt* does this partition with the question marks mean, well I’m just gonna hope that’s the right one…
When installing Linux, make sure Grub is on the partition where Linux is, not the boot sector where the Vista bootloader is.
Then before anything else, you need to boot into Vista again and point EasyBCD at the Linux installation, and enter something descriptive for its menu.
Then reboot. After the BIOS screen, the EasyBCD menu appears. Choose between Vista and Linux. When Linux is chosen, Grub runs and Linux boots.
And finally, don’t forget to make Linux your default in EasyBCD
Wait what…? I was sure I had it this time >.< …
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Umm so let me try this again I make the partitions for SUSE “/” would be its root (correct?) & then I go into EasyBCD & install GRUB on the “/” partition & then install…?
