On 29/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:leei@webmail.co.za">leei@webmail.co.za</a></b> <<a href="mailto:leei@webmail.co.za">leei@webmail.co.za</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was trying out Suse 10.3 over the weekend and tried to dual boot it with<br>Windows Vista.</blockquote><div><br>Is Vista on the same drive as the openSUSE or is openSUSE on a separate drive? <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The boot.1st file is blank and if you go into the Yast admin tool for<br>booting you can make changes but it does not save the changes and I do not<br>know where it is trying to save them too as the menu.1st is blank. I even
<br>tired modifying the boot.1st file and Suse created another blank boot.1st<br>file. I was root when I modified the files.</blockquote><div><br>Do you have the DVD or are you using the 'Live' CD? If you have the full DVD then boot from that choose 'Rescue' its a bit misleading as it looks like it is going to do a fresh install. Follow the instructions for 'Rescue' do the *Full* checks this will interrogate your system and 'should' fix the boot loader.
<br><br>I have used the Rescue feature of SuSE, openSUSE hundreds of times its the best *Automated Fix* routine of any distribution.<br><br>openSUSE does not like you directly editing boot files for some reason so I'd give the rescue a try 1st.
<br><br>Hope that helps.<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Regards<br><br>Dick Turpin<br><a href="http://www.cannon-linux.co.uk">http://www.cannon-linux.co.uk</a><br><br>Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there's no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.