Vista x64 and SUSE Linux

I have a new laptop with Vista Ultimate, 64-bit version. I want to make this
a dual-boot machine by installing SUSE on its own partition. Also, I will
use one of their two boot loaders.

If I do this, as I did with my XP Pro laptop, does anyone know of any issue
I should be aware of?

Thanks in advance!

Mike B.

Vista does not boot in the same manner as does XP - I have not tried
dual-booting Vista with Linux, there's no reason tothink it wouldn't work
just as easily, but it will most likely not all work the way you'd expect.
Personally, I think I would like to see it first on a test-bed installation
using two separate physical HD's, before doing it to a laptop. Doing that, I
would see if I couldn't install GRUB to the Linux HD and set up SUSE with a
[ /boot ] partition and not touch the Windows prepared MBR at all.


Tony. . .


"Mike Benton" <msnewsgroups@michaelbenton.com> wrote in message
news:656E3A38-90D0-4B64-B579-A4483D3828CA@microsoft.com...
> I have a new laptop with Vista Ultimate, 64-bit version. I want to make
this
> a dual-boot machine by installing SUSE on its own partition. Also, I will
> use one of their two boot loaders.
>
> If I do this, as I did with my XP Pro laptop, does anyone know of any
issue
> I should be aware of?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Mike B.
>

That was exactly my plan. My laptop has two physical drives (2 X 160gb).

"Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@dbREMOVEmail.dk> wrote in message
news:uVYsBQqXHHA.984@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Vista does not boot in the same manner as does XP - I have not tried
> dual-booting Vista with Linux, there's no reason tothink it wouldn't work
> just as easily, but it will most likely not all work the way you'd expect.
> Personally, I think I would like to see it first on a test-bed
> installation
> using two separate physical HD's, before doing it to a laptop. Doing that,
> I
> would see if I couldn't install GRUB to the Linux HD and set up SUSE with
> a
> [ /boot ] partition and not touch the Windows prepared MBR at all.
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "Mike Benton" <msnewsgroups@michaelbenton.com> wrote in message
> news:656E3A38-90D0-4B64-B579-A4483D3828CA@microsoft.com...
>> I have a new laptop with Vista Ultimate, 64-bit version. I want to make
> this
>> a dual-boot machine by installing SUSE on its own partition. Also, I will
>> use one of their two boot loaders.
>>
>> If I do this, as I did with my XP Pro laptop, does anyone know of any
> issue
>> I should be aware of?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Mike B.
>>
>
>

I'm less sanguine about this. I think you might need to let the boot loader
be Vista. But by all means give it a try and let us know how it goes. I
haven't tried it yet myself.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64


"Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@dbREMOVEmail.dk> wrote in message
news:uVYsBQqXHHA.984@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Vista does not boot in the same manner as does XP - I have not tried
> dual-booting Vista with Linux, there's no reason tothink it wouldn't work
> just as easily, but it will most likely not all work the way you'd expect.
> Personally, I think I would like to see it first on a test-bed
> installation
> using two separate physical HD's, before doing it to a laptop. Doing that,
> I
> would see if I couldn't install GRUB to the Linux HD and set up SUSE with
> a
> [ /boot ] partition and not touch the Windows prepared MBR at all.
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "Mike Benton" <msnewsgroups@michaelbenton.com> wrote in message
> news:656E3A38-90D0-4B64-B579-A4483D3828CA@microsoft.com...
>> I have a new laptop with Vista Ultimate, 64-bit version. I want to make
> this
>> a dual-boot machine by installing SUSE on its own partition. Also, I will
>> use one of their two boot loaders.
>>
>> If I do this, as I did with my XP Pro laptop, does anyone know of any
> issue
>> I should be aware of?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Mike B.
>>
>
>

My recollection is that Grub recognizes Vista and everything works fine.

I played with it during the Vista beta and RC1.

Hi.. I have Vista Ultimate 64 with 2 300GB drives. I'm moving all the data
from the second drive to "C" to clear space for RHEL4 and will attempt a
dual-boot. I would actually prefer to use the Vista boot-loader; how do I do
that? Thanks Ron


"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:

> I'm less sanguine about this. I think you might need to let the boot loader
> be Vista. But by all means give it a try and let us know how it goes. I
> haven't tried it yet myself.
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>
>
> "Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@dbREMOVEmail.dk> wrote in message
> news:uVYsBQqXHHA.984@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > Vista does not boot in the same manner as does XP - I have not tried
> > dual-booting Vista with Linux, there's no reason tothink it wouldn't work
> > just as easily, but it will most likely not all work the way you'd expect.
> > Personally, I think I would like to see it first on a test-bed
> > installation
> > using two separate physical HD's, before doing it to a laptop. Doing that,
> > I
> > would see if I couldn't install GRUB to the Linux HD and set up SUSE with
> > a
> > [ /boot ] partition and not touch the Windows prepared MBR at all.
> >
> >
> > Tony. . .
> >
> >
> > "Mike Benton" <msnewsgroups@michaelbenton.com> wrote in message
> > news:656E3A38-90D0-4B64-B579-A4483D3828CA@microsoft.com...
> >> I have a new laptop with Vista Ultimate, 64-bit version. I want to make
> > this
> >> a dual-boot machine by installing SUSE on its own partition. Also, I will
> >> use one of their two boot loaders.
> >>
> >> If I do this, as I did with my XP Pro laptop, does anyone know of any
> > issue
> >> I should be aware of?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> Mike B.
> >>
> >
> >
>

I successfully installed SUSE Enterprise Desktop 10 on my HP laptop. I have
two 160gb drives. The first drive (hd0) is my Vista partition....all of it.
The second drive is ntfs except for 20gb that I reserved for SUSE. I used
the Vista disk management to shrink the original 160bg partition by 20gb.

During the install of SUSE I didn't touch anything but the 20gb, which SUSE
created three partitions. One for swap space (2gb), a root partition (7gb),
and a home partition (10.x gb). Grub is used as a boot loader.

By default GRUB will not add a boot option for Windows Vista.

I just completed the installation without worrying about this. After logging
into SUSE desktop for the first time I used a root console login to edit the
/boot/grub/menu.lst file. I simply added:

title "Windows Vista"
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

This is because Vista is loaded on the first partition of the first hard
drive. That's it....no issues! With the exception of a minor issue with my
sound card, all hardware was correctly recognized. I logged in to SUSE at
work for the first time and the login sound was at full volume through the
speakers even though I plugged in headphones. It doesn't seem to recognize
that I have headphones. Even with mute selected in the SUSE O/S,
login/logoff sounds are played at max volume. Ouch.... I quickly disabled
system sounds.

:)

Mike


"Mike Benton" <msnewsgroups@michaelbenton.com> wrote in message
news:656E3A38-90D0-4B64-B579-A4483D3828CA@microsoft.com...
>I have a new laptop with Vista Ultimate, 64-bit version. I want to make
>this a dual-boot machine by installing SUSE on its own partition. Also, I
>will use one of their two boot loaders.
>
> If I do this, as I did with my XP Pro laptop, does anyone know of any
> issue I should be aware of?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Mike B.

Congrat's - good to know that it was mostly un-surprising! As for the
sound - not knowing what product you have, my HP zv5000 (something) was
having trouble with XP x64 on grounds of driver issues concerning the
proprietary multi-function keys and buttons for turning on WiFi, and the
sound volume buttons didn't work. I installed Sabayon Linux (Gentoo) and it
runs with excellence and some (a few) of those things actually work, or can
be made to work - I don't really use most of it anyway. I am going to remove
XP Home completely from it.

I think you can put your sound to work o.k. without these functions - fire
up the mixer utility and hard set the volume there - just like in Windows,
you can have an Icon in the Taskbar to make adjustments.


Tony. . .


"Mike Benton" <msnewsgroups@michaelbenton.com> wrote in message
news:91CCED90-4164-497B-8F56-9B5F0E445EDD@microsoft.com...
> I successfully installed SUSE Enterprise Desktop 10 on my HP laptop. I
have
> two 160gb drives. The first drive (hd0) is my Vista partition....all of
it.
> The second drive is ntfs except for 20gb that I reserved for SUSE. I used
> the Vista disk management to shrink the original 160bg partition by 20gb.
>
> During the install of SUSE I didn't touch anything but the 20gb, which
SUSE
> created three partitions. One for swap space (2gb), a root partition
(7gb),
> and a home partition (10.x gb). Grub is used as a boot loader.
>
> By default GRUB will not add a boot option for Windows Vista.
>
> I just completed the installation without worrying about this. After
logging
> into SUSE desktop for the first time I used a root console login to edit
the
> /boot/grub/menu.lst file. I simply added:
>
> title "Windows Vista"
> root (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> This is because Vista is loaded on the first partition of the first hard
> drive. That's it....no issues! With the exception of a minor issue with my
> sound card, all hardware was correctly recognized. I logged in to SUSE at
> work for the first time and the login sound was at full volume through the
> speakers even though I plugged in headphones. It doesn't seem to recognize
> that I have headphones. Even with mute selected in the SUSE O/S,
> login/logoff sounds are played at max volume. Ouch.... I quickly disabled
> system sounds.
>
> :)
>
> Mike
>
>
> "Mike Benton" <msnewsgroups@michaelbenton.com> wrote in message
> news:656E3A38-90D0-4B64-B579-A4483D3828CA@microsoft.com...
> >I have a new laptop with Vista Ultimate, 64-bit version. I want to make
> >this a dual-boot machine by installing SUSE on its own partition. Also, I
> >will use one of their two boot loaders.
> >
> > If I do this, as I did with my XP Pro laptop, does anyone know of any
> > issue I should be aware of?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Mike B.
>