[lug] error loading operating system

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:
> On 3/4/2011 1:30 PM, Chuck Morrison wrote:
>> er, I meant to say install <grub> to the mbr or first partition.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Chuck Morrison <chuck.morrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On that same line of thought, did your opensuse install to the mbr or
>>> the first partition ? My guess is it needs to be on the mbr.
>
> Although if you want to dual boot with Vista or Windows 7 you will need
> to make the Windows bootloader first on the MBR and use it to chain-load
> GRUB. There are instructions for this online.
>
> Otherwise, the Microsoft DRM code will fail to validate and you won't be
> able to do things like play Bluray or use MS disk encryption. I'm not
> sure Windows will load at all, actually.

I've never heard of such. I have always put grub in the MBR and
chained to the Windows boot loader to load windows as described in one
of the posts to this thread.


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