dual boot

[muert0]

Blah.I'm sorry hd0,0=first harddrive, first partition
It should be hd3,0
Try changing that in your grub config first. Sorry about the brainfart.

[quasi-modo]

It still doesn't like me. I tried burning that iso to a cd, but it is not booting, like when my pc looks for a bootable cd (because the cdrom drive is first in the boot order) it does not find one. I burned the iso. Ugh.... What if I dropped linux for a while, then modded the windows boot.ini or something so it would boot go to the third hard drive and then I select linux, rather then going to the first hard drive and me selecting windows in the third. Is that possible even?

[quasi-modo]

Ok, if linux is on the hd, the hd is no longer ntfs, so windows would not assign it a letter. This drive linux is on was c to windows, and the drive windows was on was e. If c no longer exists, the drive that was formerly d would become c, and the drive that was e would become d. I am getting a disk read error now, number 25. Does this sound like the cause? I want windows on the sata drive, because its the fasted, unfortunately, I cannot make this drive c without taking out the other two drives. I also did not want to partition up the e drive. But I may need to. You know, just install suse on the e drive and see what that does. But does my windows drive jump up a letter theory sound logical? I just installed windows the other day, and I just installed suse, so I can reinstall both at the drop of a hat. But all of this reinstalling of everything takes up a lot of time -- huge pain in the arse. Here is my current code for grub

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###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Windows###
title Windows
   root (hd2,1)
   Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
   chainloader +1


[mynameistmp]

I've never used whatever it is you're messing around with in all those posts, but have you considered running lilo ? Does SuSE not like lilo or something ?

[quasi-modo]

suse came with grub.

[quasi-modo]

Okay, I was right, the windows being on the last drive was what was doing it. I cut up my little drive into 3 partitions (only bad thing is it is ide, and I wanted windows on the fastest drive... oh well), one for windows, one for linux, one for swap. The I installed xp home (I plan to upgrade it to pro tomorrow, but I cant just install pro because my pro cd is scratched, I have to upgrade to it (but it saves me from having to type the cd key)), then linux, now it all runs smooth. The windows partition is under 8gb, so is the linux. But I have tons of space on my other two hard drives. I can put in another linux partition later, and I have tons (240gb) of ntfs space available right now. Now I am happy. Thanks for the help guys....   You guys helped me understand this a bit more. If I could game from linux and run asp.net effectively I would use this full time... I love this freaken spell checking on forms.