Dual-boot installation of openSuSE 11.3 with Windpws 7 [old problem solved]

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#1

Dear friends,

Yesterday (Sept. 28) I managed to install openSuSE 11.3 on my Toshiba Satellite Pro C650 laptop, side-by-side with Windows 7 which was pre-installed.

In brief I’d like to report the problems I had encountered up to yesterday.

  1. Upon inserting the DVD and after the start of the installation the system would take me to non-GUI (Text) Mode and would finally respond with the message: “No repository found.”
  2. After that I tried to install openSuSE 11.2 and 11.1. There, although the installation went through smoothly, I had to deal with a new problem; when I selected to boot Windows 7 from the grub menu the system responded with the message:

rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainload +1
BOOTMGR is missing

OK, with a lot of help from this forum and others like it, here’s what I did:

Upon booting the computer from the DVD with the Linux OS and before I hit ENTER I changed the Kernel by hitting F5 (or whatever key corresponds to Kernel at the bottom of screen) to “Failsafe mode”. That did the job. The installation started and ended smoothly. Oh! one other thing I did is to edit the preselected disk partition and delete the swap partition since the disk has to have four and not five partitions.

After that, I became root and edited “/boot/grub/menu.lst” file to correct the “(hd0,1)” for the Windows 1 to “(hd0,0)” since it is the first OS.

Hopefully this would help.

#2

Oh! one other thing I did is to edit the preselected disk partition and delete the swap partition since the disk has to have four and not five partitions.

The disk can only have four primary partitions, one of which can be an extended primary, this extended primary can hold many logical partitions.
It is advisable to have a swap partition.