trying to dual boot

So i set up dual boot with openSUSE and Win7, I can install openSuse and everything seems to be working great. But when i restart i can still boot into linux but when i try to boot into win7 is freezes on the loading screen(the pulsing windows logo).

If i delete the partitions that openSUSE is on, then run the windows repair, the repair finds nothing, but i am then able to boot into windows no problem?

Any Suggestions for successful dual booting???

thanks

 

If you run Windows repair or fixmbr from your Win disk, and then reinstall GRUB, that might fix the problem.

 

i've tried do a dual boot install twice, both times the same result (cant boot into windows). Maybe ill try another distro and see if for some reason that works.

Any other suggestions???

 

Have you tried what I suggested, with allowing Windows to write over the MBR, and then reinstall GRUB, or installing Windows after Linux, and then recovering GRUB?

 

Apparently not.

 

I was able to use this http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ to help after installing ubuntu on my machine I remember

 

i used the bootrec /fixmbr and it worked for a while, then i installed some apps on linux and got the freeze again. I used fixmbr and it worked. So i guess anytime i add/delete an app ill have to fix the mbr, until i find a better solution

 

Dude, what the frolicking French toast?! That's pretty messed up. So if you just boot Linux and don't install/remove apps, Windows boots fine?

 

That doesn't make too much sense. Where is the bootloader located ... maybe the bootloader is somewhere that gets deleted when adding/removing apps?

 

Hi,
i'd try (if you haven't already) hide linux partitions for windows in grub.conf using 'hide' command.

Using the 'hide' and 'unhide' commands, tell the grub to make certain partitions visible or invisible to the BIOS. For programs that use the BIOS to access the disk, these make disk partitions appear or disappear as needed. You may need this for Windows, because they do not know how to deal with not owning the first partition on the hard drive (which i suspect is your case). Then, the hide commands make windows think to be in the first partition when it boots.
Don't give up and post if you solved it

 

I've never installed openSUSE, but I've done many dual boots. From my experiences and many failures, this is the way I do it now.

1) Use gParted to partition your drive into the desired manner. I can recommend some partition schemes if you like. Download the iso here and burn it to a disc. For your case, I recommend a complete format of your system after backing up your private data.

2) Install Windows first into the partition set out. That partition should be at least 30Gb.

3) Install Linux (openSUSE in your case) next into the allocated partition. During the install, setup GRUB to the sda partition. Not sda1, sda2 or sdaX. Just sda. What this does is it makes GRUB overwrite the MBR and GRUB controls the booting.

4) You will find that you cannot access W7 after you install Linux. This is when you edit GRUB's "menu.lst". In Arch Linux, it's in "/etc/grub/menu.lst". Check where openSUSE puts it. Uncomment the Windows portion in similar fashion to the ones above, and change

where ? represents the partition that Windows is. If you installed it in sda1, then ? = 0, if you installed it in sda5, then ? = 4. This is because the count starts from 0. The other menu.lst settings can be tweaked at your leisure.

5) After you reboot, the GRUB menu will appear (if you didn't do any careless mistakes) and you can choose either openSUSE or W7.

6) ?

7) PROFIT!