I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, which used to dual boot Windows Vista and openSUSE. Windows is on sda1 openSUSE / is on sda2 OpenSUSE was upgraded (new installation over pre-existing 12.1) to 12.2 abot 2 weeks ago, which installed grub2 as the bootloader. All was well, both openSUSE and Windows Vista were offered in the boot menu. Today I went through the same process with Wndows, from Vista to Windows 7. The upgrade option didn't run, so I chose the new installation, which did. Now, of course, the machine boots straight into Windows 7, with no boot menu choices. I have used the openSUSE 12.2 installation disc to boot to 'Rescue System', and followed the instructions given here http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2012-04/msg00690.html namely: 1. Boot to rescue system 2. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt (suppose /dev/sda1 is your / partition) 3. mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev 4. mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys 5. mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc 6. chroot /mnt 7. /usr/sbin/grub2-install --force --skip-fs-probe /dev/sda1 8. reboot Obviously, I changed sda1 to sda2, and confirmed with ls -l that I had mounted my openSUSE root partition. Step 7 resulted on the following warning: File system 'ext2' doesn't support embedding. Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. Installation finished. No error reported. The reference to the 'ext2' filesystem is a hangover from grub legacy days when I formatted /boot as ext2 (no need for journalling in /boot, I'd read somewhere). Can anyone suggest a solution to this dilemma? I'm not averse to typing stuff in to the command line, but I don't know much about grub legacy, and even less about grub2, so I'd appreciate a step by step guide. Many thanks, Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.4.6-2.10-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.8.5 (4.8.5) "release 2" Uptime: 06:00am up 13 days 11:53, 4 users, load average: 0.50, 0.34, 0.26 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org