Does anybody have a guide for partitioning and maximum installation success for having both these OS’s run a brand new notebook, starting from scratch?
If you mean win7 is NOT installed.
I would split the drive down the middle
Make the first partition ntfs Primary
Create One extended primary in the other section and inside it create 3 logical partitions for: swap, root, home
swap should be 2x RAM
/ (root) about 15-20 GB
/home as big as you can
Install win7 first
Once done, move the boot flag on to the extended partition and install SUSE
Here are some guides:
Partitioning/Install Guide
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XP is installed and I’m going to rip everything off and start from scratch.
thanks caf4926
A couple things…
I found a tool Universal boot CD that has Gparted on it and I can, prior to installation, partition my drive allowing for ext2, ext3, etx4, fat & ntfs formats. I’ve noticed that some installs end up formatting ext4 some partitions ext3 and others ext4. So I’m not sure about this part. Could someone clear it up with the “leveraged” table below?
The ‘root’ partition: Is represented by: / [ext3 or ext4]
The ‘home’ partition: Is represented by: /home [ext3 or ext4]
The ‘swap’ partition has no representation but is simply as format [swap]
And what’s the difference between ext3 & ext4
Well the installer will format to what you tell it to. It defaults to ext4 which is the newest in the ext series. ext4 has been very stable for me and is faster the ext3. The only real reason to use ext3 IMO is that you have an existing ext3 partition with data you wish to keep.
Since I had trouble with the intel driver and I’m making this a dual boot notebook with win7 on the other partition, I went ahead and installed win7 and confirmed that ONLY with intel hardware driver is used. So there must be something wrong with the intel driver openSuse uses or I need to add nomodeset.(why and what does nomodeset do?)
Back on (dual boot) topic:
** I used Ultimate Boot CD to do all the partitioning and set the boot flags (UBCD).
- I split the HD down the middle formatting 128GB primary partition as NTFS
- The other half of the HD was set to be an extended partition with 3 parts /(40GB), /home(80GB) & swap(4GB = 2 x RAM) all set to be ext4 where applicable.
- Set the primary/ntfs partition boot flag
- installed win7 on the primary partition and got all the drivers installed(confirmed intel graphics only)
- changed the boot flag to the extended partition (not the partitions for / or /home)
- installed grub into the same partition as the boot flag and (and worked with openSuse 11.3 no video and failsafe boots until installation completed)
*Result: grub presents its menu and I can successfully boot into either win7 or openSuse 11.3 “Failsafe”
I have no idea if this is the best way to do this but it works. If any one can suggest a better option or sees something wrong with my config, I’d sure appreciate hearing about it!
- during the install process openSuse indicated that the bootloader might not work because it was getting installed after the first 120GB of disk space, but it did work just fine.
The notebook’s wireless LAN isn’t working and I need to fix the intel video
- so off to ->hardware - mike
It’s sounds like you did everything correctly
But I can’t figure out if you can actually boot to a desktop in SUSE at all (even in Failsafe)
The nomodeset is for nvidia drivers.
Post the result of this:
/sbin/lspci -nnk
There is a video driver guide here
openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users
I believe the wireless = 43.00.0
lspci -nnk output:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 12)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 12)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
00:16.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset KT Controller [8086:3b67] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
Kernel driver in use: serial
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10ea] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 06)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:3b48] (rev 06)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b07] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
43:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 [8086:4239] (rev 35)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 2x2 AGN [8086:1311]
Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
44:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
44:06.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 25)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
44:06.2 CardBus bridge [0607]: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II [1180:0476] (rev bb)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:172a]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:8086]
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:8086]
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:8086]
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:8086]
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:8086]
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:8086]
If I take nomodeset out of the grub line I don’t have (intel) video.
back to failsafe…