On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 18:05 -0400, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 22:58 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 15:31 +0100, Michael Schueller wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2012 schrieb Koenraad Lelong:
Hi,
After reading the threads about grub, I was wondering how I have to install opensuse on my ubuntu laptop. There is a partition free, but how about grub ? What information do I need to be able to make an entry in suse's menu.lst ? Or can opensuse's installer manage this by itself ? Then again, do I need to modify my ubuntu to tell it's no longer in control of grub ?
TIA
Koenraad Lelong
Hello Konrad
The Problem is, that opensuse use grub1 and ubuntu grub2. This cause that ubuntu will find opensuse as a bootable system, but opensuse can not handle ubuntu. But if you want opensuse to manage the systems on your computer, then you can setup ubuntu manually.
If i understood correctly, 12.1 _does_ have grub2, but uses by default grub1.
So i'm not sure if that means that after installation, you can switch towards grub2. Or if you can decide during the info-gathering just before installation, that you **might** be able to tell the installer to use grub2 instead of grub1, and use grub2 straight away.
If i had some idle hw, i might have tested that, be all is in use..;-(
hw
Have a look here; http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/ad...
It's dead simple to edit menu.lst, this explains how to add the entries you need.
Jon
Except for one detail. The date of that article is: "26-Mar-2011, 15:32" At that time, afaicr, Ubuntu was still using grub1, after that they changed to grub2. The fact that suse's grub1 does not recognize the stuf from grub2 (U11.04, U11.10, fedora16) is causing the problems As soon as we change also to grub2, this problem will be something of the past. Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org