On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, there was a previous thread that I read about a month ago where someone had installed Suse first, then windows. After that they couldn't get Suse to boot. I just rebuilt my 10 year old desktop with a new MB and CPU, and installed Suse first on an extended partition, then Windows.
After the window install, Grub didn't show up and Suse wouldn't boot. I reread the thread I mentioned above, but didn't find clear directions as to how to resolve the problem. After a little research, I found out how to fix the problem, so here is how I got it to boot. I used gparted, available here:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
I booted from the gparted disk, then when its desktop came up, I opened up a terminal by clicking on the terminal icon on the desktop. Then I typed the following commands:
YouType: grub Terminal: grub>
YouType: find /boot/grub/menu.lst Terminal: (hd0,5) "or different, depending on your set up, so replace the numbers to reflect your installation."
YouType: root (hd0,5) Terminal: filesystem is ext3fs, partiontype 0x83
YouType: setup (hd0) "I did this because I was setting up grub in the MBR, change this to reflect you preference of where you want grub to live." Terminal: Checking...Succeeded...Done
YouType: quit reboot
My grub already had an entry for windows because I had partitioned my first primary drive and formatted it to NTSF before I installed any operating systems. So I was able to boot windows after reboot. If you don't have a windows entry in grub, then place one like this:
Start menu>Applications>System>FileManager>FileManagerSuperUserMode>boot> /boot/grub>/boot/grub/menu.lst
Once the grub menu is open, then add this entry to the list making sure to place the root location of Window in the partition where windows is located:
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
Save the changes to the grub file, and you should be good to go after this.
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That is because Windows over wrote the the grubs. It's always best to install Windows then openSUSE or any Linux. You can try and re-install grub. Download the DVD use it to repair. I haven't ever done it. But if you do a search on fix grub after windows install, you will fix the step to fix it. -- ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org