Vista Boot Loader vs GRUB Round One

[Zophos]

After doing some research on installing Windows Vista, I have found that much of the time multi-boot users must alter their boot loaders in order to get Vista to ?play nice? with other operating systems on their machines, especially if Vista is the last OS to be installed. Most of these articles discuss installing Vista on the same hard drive as other operating systems and, while very useful, don?t address my scenario.

I am currently running XP Home and openSUSE 10.2. Both operating systems are on the same hard drive and are installed across five partitions (two for windows, and three for Linux). I have purchased a copy of Windows Vista Business 64-bit, and I plan to install it on a secondary (blank) hard drive. This should be a relatively painless process except I am unsure of one thing. Since I am using GRUB to boot my machine, will installing Vista and its boot loader on the second hard drive overwrite my GRUB configuration? If so, what steps should I take to stop the new OS from interfering with it, or how do I get GRUB reset as the primary boot loader if it is disabled by Vista?s boot loader?

 

[tatteredpotato]

Hmm it's usually easier to install the Linux OS and bootloader second. When I put Ubuntu Edgy on my laptop grub installed and configured itself.

 

[pcgeek11]

Vista will take over your boot loader duties when it is installed.

Fix it by booting from the Suse CD/DVD like you are going to install then when you get to the part of choosing what you want to do one of the options will be " Boot Installed System " Choose that then it will boot into your already installed Suse installation. Once there you will need to use YAST to repair install your boot loader GRUB.

pcgeek11