Hello all Until recently I dual booted with Win XP and OpenSUSE The hdd are partitioned: Primary : 133 GB NTFS, XP 100 GB NTFS Storage - extended partition Secondary: 107.4 GB Ext4 OpenSUSE - 35 Gb /, 4GbSwap, 68Gb Home 1289.7 GB NTFS Storage - extended partition I have found it necessary to wipe and reinstall XP which of course overwrote the mbr and I now no longer have OpenSUSE. I am unable to restore the mbr from within the live OpenSUSE dvd bacause I get the message ERROR Because of the partitioning, the boot loader cannot be installed properly. I the thought I would try the Boot Manager from within Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 12, version 10.0.19.15177 (27.02.12). The Boot Manager installed ok on the first hard disk, but on reboot I only had the choice of XP and uninstall Boot Manager. OpenSUSE on the 2nd hard disk was not picked up. Is this a limitation of the Boot Manager ? If so, is it likely that it will be addressed ?
I am new here but I did a little parsing through some URLs. The least intrusive one I could find gives details about Dual Boot critical setup prep and MBR "fall-out". Don't know if Paragon's Boot Manager has work-around scenario for your machine unfortunate symptoms. I know it took you a decent amount of time and prepping to orchestrate the dual boot initially. Hope Paragon can avail you of some solution or utility which may assist you further. I am very new to this support site and have not taken full advantage of the Paragon Software I have purchased. I am NOT well-versed w/open SUSE or LINUX -- but i'm encouraged by others to pursue the newer versions. I remember dabbling with "Red-Hat" and "Walnut Creek" versions of LINUX long ago. LINUX has advanced greatly (especially the GUI). URL provided below: http://www.tweakhound.com/2013/03/18/dual-boot-opensuse-12-3-and-windows/ HBQ
