I have experienced that installation of a second openSUSE version (for dual-boot) looze the menu.lst and fails to boot after the installation. I have also found a work-around to fix this, but I'm afraid unexperienced openSUSE users can give up and drop openSUSE for further testing if and when this happends. Therefore I wonder if the installation can be made more robust to avoid this confusing issue. Scenario: 1) On my hp laptop the SSD disk (sda 150G) was sliced in six partitions and applied as follows for a first installed andworking openSUSE 13.2: /dev/sda1 2G swap /dev/sda2 20G / (root for openSUSE 13.2) /dev/sda3 40G /home /dev/sda4 87G (Extended) /dev/sda5 20G (available for second root) /dev/sda6 67G /data (additional user data) 2) Next I installed Leap 42.1 M2 from the DVD, selected Expert partitioning, imported existing mount points and selected /dev/sda5 formatted ext4 as root for Leap /dev/sda3 unformatted and mounted as shared /home for 13.2 and Leap (yes I know the shared /home has some drawbacks but more benefits in my opinion) Beyond adding some extra appliactions and setup SSH, the installation else was kept as default. I didn't change anything regarding the bootloader installation. The installation went ok until the first reboot, the it stopped on the black console sreen after the word 'GRUB' and nothing else. I tried to startup again and the same happened; no GRUB menu.lst didn't become available. That is, neither the previous working openSUSE 13.2 nor 42.1 could be started. 3) Workaround: What I have found that works (mostly alsways) to fix boot problems, is to run an Upgrade installation from the 13.2 DVD by re-enabling all previous online repositories one by one (there should have been an single option to easier re-enable all !?). The upgrade then doesn't change anything than reinstall the boot-loader at the end. And after first reboot, the GRUB menu is back containing both 13.2 (default) and 42.1 boot options as it should. Can this issue be avoided to make dual or multiboot installations easier? 4) For one or another reason the same boot-issue doesn't happend on my stationary workstation with tripple boot setup between 13.2 - Tumbleweed and 42.1 over more internal disks. Though I have to run Upgrade from the 13.2 DVD afterwards as I want 13.2 to be kept as the be the default boot option (I guess there is another way to edit this). And after upgrade of i.e the TW kernel version I also have to run mkconfig on 13.2 to update the menu.lst Thanks, Terje J. Hanssen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org