Renard

Quick update - after using fixmbr to remove grub from my boot, I can no longer boot from the linux drive. Looks like I'll have to reinstall again, and this time not use any boot loaders what so ever.

Yeah, I noticed that upon installing PM8 today - guess I'll have to try and use the fixmbr off the restore console. And what I mean by changing the boot order - make bios ignore all other HD's except my suse HD, thus booting the system. Obviously this isn't how I've done it with this install, but that method actually worked well with a prior fedora install (I wiped it out in an ill-advised attempt to play with Windows Vista), so assuming I can just wipe out grub's existance, I'll just use that method. Should fixmbr resolve that? Or should I wipe suse again as well? - the twinview issue I'm assuming at this point is simply a bad install.

Thanks for the response, danleff - I figured that was the case after removing the drive and trying to boot - it was looking for files not on my main IDE0 (hda0) drive. I'd be interested to find out what you find. In the meantime, should I just use something like partition magic to wipe my MBR on IDE0 and set the boot order in my bios to work around it? As far as the twinview goes - I did my research before asking. Mu video xconf file doesn't contain a section about twinview. I'm thinking it was a possible bad install. Should I just try to reinstall the drivers? Do I need to remove some files first before I attempt such a thing? Thanks!

Ok, my question is two parts - completely seperate, and I'm not sure if they'd both apply here. My first issue is this: I recently installed suse 10 to a removable hard drive (removable drive bay). I have my main install of windows xp pro on my first (hda0) drive, where grub loads from. When I remove my drive from and insert another one and try to boot, grub refuses to allow me to boot into windows. Any ideas? My second question is more basic, and might just be a bad install of my nvidia drivers: How the %$*( do I get twinview working? Having used it for so long I'm incapable of only using one monitor at a time. Thanks in advance!