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Hi there everyone,

I have been trying to install mythbuntu, ubuntu, and now suse for about a few days now. I have narrowed down the problems and now I am stumped. Let me start with what I have, xfx 750a motherboard;AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+BE OC to 2.9ghz;2g of 1066 ram not OC actually at 800; HITACHI Deskstar 320GB SATA Hard Drive;WD Caviar 250GB SATA;LG DVD Burner GH22NS30;Lite-on IDE SOHC-5236V DVD-ROM/CD Burner;EVGA 8800gt.
*order on easus partition manager
Disk 1 250g WD *
1.Vista Apps,Drive F=126.95g
2.Vista ,Drive C=51.76
2.Restore ,Drive G=9.77
4.Bootsak ,Drive D=44.41

Disk2 320g Hitachi
1. ,Drive H=68.36
2. ,Drive I=68.36
3.Backup ,Drive J=68.36
4.unsure ,Drive E=93.01

As you can see, I have vista as my main OS. Originally, I was trying to put mythbuntu on my second hard drive. I have a few computers and was trying to test mythbuntu, before I put it on my media center pc. Ubuntu was just to test and the I ran across opensuse while researching. I think I will like it for a main OS, so it will be my main OS other Vista. I am trying to get away from MS,I have grown weary of having to purchasing programs that 6 out of 7 times I wouldn’t say suck, but arent worth the money you paid. Don’t get me wrong I am not a vista basher, in fact I prefer it to the others.
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Anyway, after grueling searching and even a format, I have discovered 2 problems. My hard drives are not being seen by any of the OS. I am not sure about suse, I had a flash drive in, so I am not sure if that is what it saw. The other is when I have the dvd burner plugged in, ubuntu will not go through to the partitioning process. It is suppose to sata, but is read as ide, also no matter what setting I have the cd burner on slave, cable select, or master. It is always the main drive. **

*I have tried changing to achi mode with some linux function on, but vista will not boot, that is with me reinstalling vista after the I switched modes. I haven’t tried raid, but wasn’t really wanting to, yet. *

I read somewhere in these forums that MS OS need to be on the 1st partition. If this is the root of my problem, I can correct it. I was a little confused though, cause the one partition labeled bootsak, is short for bootsect.bak. When I made the partitions, I meant to put the vista file there, but when I created the partiton and typed create partition primary. It was meant to have about 55 to 58 gigs, so I used that one which was meant to be the backup partition.

If someone could help point me in the right direction. I can move the vista partition if that is the problem. I thought the motherboard could be the problem, but I am not so sure anymore. I have got to get some rest, sorry for this post being choppy. It is 4 in the morning here and I have been at it all night.
Here are some pics I took of suse and the partition manager. Oh, I have easybcd downloaded, but haven’t used it yet. I wanted to make sure that was what I need to do.

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This is not accurate. On the new laptop that I purchased, I have Vista on the third primary partition. There is some Dell diagnostic stuff on the first primary partition on my laptop. And I have openSUSE on the extended (4th) partition.

I think what is necessary here is that MS OS must be on a primary partition.

Do you have access to an openSUSE liveCD? If so, then what you could do is boot to the live CD, open a gnome-terminal or a konsole (looks sort of like a dos window) and then type:
su -c ‘fdisk -l’
For the live CD, I think you just press < enter > for the password.

That should tell you what disks/partitions that openSUSE can recognize.

I notice this is your 1st post here. Let me say WELCOME to openSUSE Linux and WELCOME to our forum. Please, something that will help you next time, is to use a better title. Many of us post here because we are “Stumped” so that is already understood! :slight_smile: … If you want the partitioning/installation experts to participate, then you really need to state something like: "Assistance in partition setup prior to install ? ", or something like that. Unfortunately the “partioning” / " installation " experts may now never read your post due to the “Stumped” title.

Because the posts in our various threads are disseminated via NNTP to a different group of users, my editing your title as a moderator is not an option, and hence there is a risk your Title will not garner the attention it deserves.

Good luck, and again, WELCOME to our forum.

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Thankyou oldcpu for for taking the time to respond after reading through that. Thoughts always seems clear when you are typing them out. Sorry for not putting in the pics, I noticed after I was done that you have to put a link into an image and couldn’t just upload them. I haven’t done it that way yet, so I wasn’t prepared.

No, I don’t have the livecd I used the dvd, but I can easily download it and will give that command a try.
Strange thing is I had ubuntu on a partition a couple of weeks before I got the sata hard drive and sata dvd burner, but I had put xp on a partition before that. I had xp on after vista, so I had to put in the install disc to switch back and forth. After I installed ubuntu, I could switch normally between vista and ubuntu. If I had been on xp at the time, I guess it would have been that os.

Nice meeting you, I’m gonna start downloading the livecd now. I had a thought for this post, since I titled it bad. What if I started a new post with a decent title and you can just delete this one.

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Go ahead and start a new one. And then at the end of this thread, we can make a post referencing your new thread. … We also try hard not to delete, again because of our interface to the NNTP users.

Note su -c ‘fdisk -l’ is designed to obtain information on your hardware, but not set up anything.