Problem with dual boot of Windows 7 and SUSE 11.4 on 2 separate hard disks in the sama computer

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Dear all,

I have problem with dual boot of Windows 7 and Linux SUSE 11.4, which have to be installed on two separate hard disks in the same computer.

Hard disks are non-RAID, but in computer I have RAID controller.

Graphical card is NVIDIA NVS 450.

Windows 7 was installed on the upper hard disk without any problem. But when I want to install Linux SUSE 11.4 - installation was proper till the moment of restarting OS Linux SUSE 11.4.

OS is getting up. I can see starting panel of SUSE 11.4 and after few seconds monitor blacked out, while the sensor for hard disk blink in the nest 5-10 seconds and then stopped. After that moment computer seems like in a mode of sleep or like OS have some internal problem.

Same case appears when I start OS SUSE 11.4. in failsafe mode.

I would be grateful for you precious help.

Branko :frowning:

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Do you have the NVIDIA graphics driver installed? From your description, it sounds like an issue with the default Nouveau driver.

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Problem was with drivers for graphical card NVIDIA. I solve this proble, with changing NVIDIA graphical card with ASUS EAH 4350 and instantly I got installation and booting of both OS systrems (SUSE 11.4 and Windows 7).

Cheers

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Good, glad you sorted it. I suspect that installation of proprietary NVIDIA driver by following the guidelines on the wiki would also have done the trick, but main thing is you’ve got a working system.