Hi all,
I've been through the dual-boot scenario a zillion times, but never with a primary SATA and SuSE on the primary IDE. I originally want to get to the point of triple booting my machine (Linux, Windoze, OSX) - but first things first.
I installed Grub on the /boot partition rather than the MBR since I've had too many problems gettings the old Windows MBR back when I wanted to kill my linux install. I did the normal dd trick of copying the boot sectors to a bin file and them mcopy'd them to a file that I put in boot.ini on Windows. However, windows refuses to boot it, I just get a round-trip back through the bios and the same screen.
My first thought was that this is due to the SATA/IDE issue. Maybe so, maybe not. Then I did the ultimate dangerous thing and resized my SATA drive to have a small primary partition so that I could put the SuSE boot partition on it. I've had partition magic fail on me before so I hated doing it, but it worked. I should mention that the new partition on the SATA drive is at the end of the 75GB drive (Raptor). I hope they've resolved the issue of boot partitions being past a certain sector.
So, ideally, I just want this to work - w/o GRUB. My first idea was to somehow change the SuSE partition table to have it point to the SATA drive for /boot and copy over everything from the /boot on the IDE to /boot on the SATA. However I realized, I don't know how to do either one! The expert options in SuSE didn't have a tool for redoing the partition table, so I got stuck there. Nor did I know how to format/clone the boot partition on the SATA. Ugh.
So, can some kind soul help me out? I just want a clean booting machine.
BTW: If you read the Tom's Hardware article about the new Intel 805 processor being oc'd to 4.0Ghz - believe it. I didn't opt for an expensive motherboard (I bought a cheap Asus board) but opted for $$ memory. I'm running at 4.0Ghz w/o water! Just lots of 120mm fans and a P180 Antec case. So, if you are thinking about it, do it! I'll help you if you help me.
Take care,
Adam
