Enrique Perez-Terron schrieb:

> On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:46:48 +0200, Gandurin <gandurin@mlf-edv.de> wrote:
>
> > Hallo,
> >
> > habe Dualboot System eingerichtet, XP war drauf, SUSE 9.3
> > nachinstalliert.
>
> Sprichts du gar kein English? Unsere Amerikanishen Freunde verstehen
> wenig Deutch. Es gibt hier auch leute von den ganzen Welt, Argentina,
> Frankreich, Japan...
>
> This guy has converted an XP system to dialboot with SuSE 9.3
>
> > Partitionierung: 1.25 GB FAT32 (weder SUSE noch Windows), C: 92GB NTFS,
> > 16GB für /, 1,5 GB SWAP
>
> The 1.25 GB FAT32 is neither SuSE nor Windows.
>
> > Alles sieht gut aus, Grub als Bootloader, Linux kann ich so oft starten
> > wie ich will, Windows nur ein mal, dann startet GRUB nicht mehr!
>
> He can start Linux as often he likes, but Windows only once, and then
> Grub does not start any more.
>
>
> > Es
> > reicht, Windows im abgesicherten Modus zu starten, damit Grub
> > zerschossen wird.
>
> It's enough to start Windows in safe mode, to destroy (?) Grub.
>
>
> > Habe mit aktuellstem Vierenscanner geprüft, kein
> > Befund.
>
> He has tried the latest virus-scanner, but found nothing.
> (Ist das richtig übersetzt?)
>
> > Grub läßt sich ohne Probleme neu installieren und erkennt die
> > Partitionen. Dann beginnt das Spiel von vorn.... einmal Windows und
> > essig ists mit Grub.
>
> He can install Grub again with nmo problems, it recognizes the
> partitions. Then the game starts again, once Windows, and that it
> with Grub.
>
> > Was macht Windows da? Hat es damit zu tun, daß Windows nicht in der
> > ersten Partition liegt?
>
> What is Windows doing here? Does it matter that Windows is not in
> the first partition?
>
> ----
>
> OK, I am glad I don't have XP, after all I hear about XP clobbering
> the master boot record. On the other hand, I never remember any
> solution if there was one, since I don't need it.
>
> Anyone else?
>
> Otherwise, what happens if you ask in a Windows forum?
> Yes of course, few there run Linux or other OS'es, but there should
> be a way to tell XP to keep its hands off the boot record, and
> XP experts should know about it. "Should", anyway.
>
> Did we hear about "disk manager" or something like that? Something
> accessible from the control panel?
>
> Another solution that comes to mind as I write, there is a way of
> booting first to a Dos(?) session using the FAT partition, and running
> a dos-based boot loader that can boot Linux as well as Windows.
> But I don't know much about it.
>
> Verstehts du das Antwort?
>
> -Enrique

Yes I do. I'll start this as a new thread in english and in the windows
forum.
Thank you very much for your help.

-Manfred