Dual boot with Windows 7 without changing the MBR?

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I have a laptop with Windows 7 - the hard drive has two partitions, the second partition was created with the Windows Vista tools previously installed on the machine.

Is there any way of installing OpenSUSE on the empty partition without affecting the Windows install at all? That is, the machine should boot into Windows by default and there should be no risk at all of touching anything Windows sees and could possibly disagree with (like the MBR).

I don’t mind pressing F12 at startup and selecting the OpenSUSE partition every time I want to boot OpenSUSE.

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Make all the second partition an extended partition
basically do as shown here with grub booting from the extended
Default Install.mpeg.rar - Windows Live

Download the video, it will play in vlc if you are using windows

See this also
All About Grub - openSUSE

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You might find this interesting

http://opensuse.swerdna.org/suseboot1.html

this can add openSUSE to your windows boot loader

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Thanks for very informative and quick answers - happy new year :slight_smile: