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I used happily EasyBCD with Vista 32 and OpenSUSE 11.0 x64.
After that I upgraded to OpenSUSE 11.1 x64 but don't worry: I always keep backups for everything
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Truly, I expected booting problems, but never something like this.
- Vista is on (hd0,0), suse on (hd0,5), a logical partition.
- I installed Grub in the root partition, like to say (hd0,5).
- After setting properly up EasyBCD, grub4dos didn't be able to find any kind of file on the suse ext3 partition! On the other hand, there was no problem to find files on C:.
- I attempted an old trick, installing a boot.ini pointing to a 512 byte "suse.bin", made with dd. After that, I made in EasyBCD an XP entry: Vista was clearly aware about my dishonest intentions and forced me to provide additionally a ntldr & companion.
- I don't remember (I was tired from continuous checking, resetting, reinstalling, setting up and so on) if it worked just once or never.
- At this point I decided to test commercial bootloaders (oh, holy torrents!).
- Acronis started suse, screwing up by vista.
- To start vista again, I cleaned the mbr with an obscure command in the vista console, it was insufficient so I repaired BCD automatically.
- At this point I uninstalled EasyBCD, without any logic reason, and installed the bootloader by Paragon: again, Linux ok and no Vista.
- And again I repaired BCD, this time straight automatically.
- NOW THE MIRACLE:
I had to reboot Vista, I did so and this time appeared from nowhere an additional entry, "OpenSUSE" (sic). The entry works perfectly.
- Back to Vista, I reinstalled EasyBCD, 1.7.2, to customize the menu, but EasyBCD doesn't see the OpenSUSE entry and the only listed entry is "Vista recovered".
:O:O:O
My explanation: BCD works also in real time, like Acronis , and the OpenSUSE programmers, true code poets, found the way for embedding virtual feromons in Suse.
My problem: I don't have the situation under control and I believe is just matter of time, something will happen, perhaps by upgrading to the next suse kernel.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance.
I used happily EasyBCD with Vista 32 and OpenSUSE 11.0 x64.
After that I upgraded to OpenSUSE 11.1 x64 but don't worry: I always keep backups for everything
.Truly, I expected booting problems, but never something like this.
- Vista is on (hd0,0), suse on (hd0,5), a logical partition.
- I installed Grub in the root partition, like to say (hd0,5).
- After setting properly up EasyBCD, grub4dos didn't be able to find any kind of file on the suse ext3 partition! On the other hand, there was no problem to find files on C:.
- I attempted an old trick, installing a boot.ini pointing to a 512 byte "suse.bin", made with dd. After that, I made in EasyBCD an XP entry: Vista was clearly aware about my dishonest intentions and forced me to provide additionally a ntldr & companion.
- I don't remember (I was tired from continuous checking, resetting, reinstalling, setting up and so on) if it worked just once or never.
- At this point I decided to test commercial bootloaders (oh, holy torrents!).
- Acronis started suse, screwing up by vista.
- To start vista again, I cleaned the mbr with an obscure command in the vista console, it was insufficient so I repaired BCD automatically.
- At this point I uninstalled EasyBCD, without any logic reason, and installed the bootloader by Paragon: again, Linux ok and no Vista.
- And again I repaired BCD, this time straight automatically.
- NOW THE MIRACLE:
I had to reboot Vista, I did so and this time appeared from nowhere an additional entry, "OpenSUSE" (sic). The entry works perfectly.
- Back to Vista, I reinstalled EasyBCD, 1.7.2, to customize the menu, but EasyBCD doesn't see the OpenSUSE entry and the only listed entry is "Vista recovered".
:O:O:O
My explanation: BCD works also in real time, like Acronis , and the OpenSUSE programmers, true code poets, found the way for embedding virtual feromons in Suse.
My problem: I don't have the situation under control and I believe is just matter of time, something will happen, perhaps by upgrading to the next suse kernel.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance.
