Want to boot XP and SUSE 9.3

Hello,
I installed XP and SUSE 9.3, GRUB in the partition, not in MBR. SUSE is installed at the second HDD (IDE1).
I cannot boot SUSE from OS Selector (XP is fine). This should be straight forward, could someone tell me what I should do?
Thanks!
Basil de Visser, Amsterdam

 

Hello Basil,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Multiboot Managing Software.

Could you please set the partition with GRUB as Primary Active partition (you may do it using Acronis Disk Dreictor Suite)? After that please deactivate and activate Acronis OS Selector choosing the appropriate option in "Tools" menu of Acronis OS Selector main screen. This should solve the problem.

Thank you.
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Ilya Toytman

 

I have exactly the same problem.

I have Windows XP installed on the original system disk, and I have been trying to install Suse Linux 9.3 on a second IDE hard disk. After the initial installation the system reboots - but instead of coming back up in Linux it boots into Windows.

I thought that using Acronis OS Selector would solve the problem by giving me the option of which OS to boot into, but in fact it cannot *see* the Linux installation. When the OS Selector window opens on reboot it only shows the Windows OS.

I have looked at the partitions in Disk Director and that shows:

Disk 1:
NTFS partition - Primary and Active

Disk 2:
Linux Swap (1GB) - Primary
ReiserFS (110GB) - Primary and Active

I have also tried deactivating and reactivating OSS as suggested above. But that made no difference.

I would be grateful for any other suggestions.

 

Hello crzzui,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Partition and Disk Managing Software.

Could you please make sure you have installed Linux loader to the MBR or primary partition as described at our site. If the problem persists please create Acronis Report in the way described at Acronis Help Post and send it to support@acronis.com along with the link to this thread.

Thank you.
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Ilya Toytman

 

Hi,

I've had the same trouble after I installed SuSE (OS Selector didn't see it) Here's what I did...


I booted the PC from the Linux CD.

Chose "installation"

It started to install and then told me I had an install already there... I was then given the option to repair.

I let the system repair itself - this sorted out the boot sector

and when I re-started - OS selector found it OK

a long way round perhaps but it works

TD