[opensuse] Switching to Windows
From time to time I switch to Windows (7), as I do the last two decennia. To my Big Surprise it is no longer possible. When I restart I get only opensuse choices. At the moment I use Tumbleweed 20150330. How can I return to the previous choices? Thanks in advance André den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
A. den Oudsten wrote:
From time to time I switch to Windows (7), as I do the last two decennia. To my Big Surprise it is no longer possible. When I restart I get only opensuse choices. At the moment I use Tumbleweed 20150330. How can I return to the previous choices?
Sounds like your bootloader config got changed - maybe there's backup of it somewhere? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.2°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 17:03:55 +0200
Per Jessen
A. den Oudsten wrote:
From time to time I switch to Windows (7), as I do the last two decennia. To my Big Surprise it is no longer possible. When I restart I get only opensuse choices. At the moment I use Tumbleweed 20150330. How can I return to the previous choices?
Sounds like your bootloader config got changed - maybe there's backup of it somewhere?
If you're using legacy grub add this to menu.lst: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1### title windows_7_Pro rootnoverify (hd0,0) <<<< change designator as needed chainloader +1 Tom -- You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now. -Joan Baez ^^ --... ...-- / -.- --. --... -.-. ..-. -.-. ^^^^ Tom Taylor KG7CFC openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit), Kernel 3.11.6-4-default, KDE 4.11.2, AMD Phenom X4 955, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Nvidia 337.19) 16GB RAM -- 3x1.5TB sata2 -- 128GB-SSD FF 36.0, claws-mail 3.10.1 registered linux user 263467 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/02/2015 10:54 AM, A. den Oudsten wrote:
From time to time I switch to Windows (7), as I do the last two decennia. To my Big Surprise it is no longer possible. When I restart I get only opensuse choices. At the moment I use Tumbleweed 20150330. How can I return to the previous choices? Thanks in advance André den Oudsten
Probably the easiest thing is to redo your bootloader configuration. The problem is I can't remember the command line string that I used to do mine a while back. Seems like it was something like sudo update-grub config Surely there is someone here that can give you the correct string. I got a H____ of a deal on a new HP laptop with dual hard drive capability. I took the Kubuntu drive out of my old laptop [ put the original Windows drive back in it ] and put the drive in my new one. The old laptop was not dual booted. I needed to update the Grub2 configuration to the new dual boot environment. It was a simple command line string that did the trick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 02/04/2015 17:37, Billie Walsh a écrit :
On 04/02/2015 10:33 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 02/04/2015 17:27, Billie Walsh a écrit :
sudo update-grub config
YaST??
jdd
terminal
there is a yast also with terminal!! jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Op 02-04-15 om 17:54 schreef A. den Oudsten:
From time to time I switch to Windows (7), as I do the last two decennia. To my Big Surprise it is no longer possible. When I restart I get only opensuse choices. At the moment I use Tumbleweed 20150330. How can I return to the previous choices? Thanks in advance André den Oudsten
Can I safely install 13.2 to get these previous choices back? André -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/03/2015 04:36 AM, A. den Oudsten wrote:
Op 02-04-15 om 17:54 schreef A. den Oudsten:
From time to time I switch to Windows (7), as I do the last two decennia. To my Big Surprise it is no longer possible. When I restart I get only opensuse choices. At the moment I use Tumbleweed 20150330. How can I return to the previous choices? Thanks in advance André den Oudsten
Can I safely install 13.2 to get these previous choices back? André
Have you tried YaST-->Boot Loader to fix this? -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Op 03-04-15 om 14:25 schreef Ken Schneider - openSUSE:
On 04/03/2015 04:36 AM, A. den Oudsten wrote:
Op 02-04-15 om 17:54 schreef A. den Oudsten:
From time to time I switch to Windows (7), as I do the last two decennia. To my Big Surprise it is no longer possible. When I restart I get only opensuse choices. At the moment I use Tumbleweed 20150330. How can I return to the previous choices? Thanks in advance André den Oudsten
Can I safely install 13.2 to get these previous choices back? André
Have you tried YaST-->Boot Loader to fix this?
Thanks Ken, that works! André -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
From time to time I switch to Windows (7), as I do the last two decennia. To my Big Surprise it is no longer possible. When I restart I get only opensuse choices. At the moment I use Tumbleweed 20150330. How can I return to the previous choices?
If you use grub2 try the following: 1. in /etc/grub.d check if all files are executable. Specially 30_os-prober. if not, make all of them executable (als root) 2. open terminal as root 3. grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (grub2 checks now for all installed OS-Systems and writes a new config-file.) then try to reboot and pray... if all work fine now then maybe you should do the following (all as root) a. copy from the file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg everything that points to your Win7 should look like this: menuentry 'Microsoft Windows' --class windows --class os ---snip--- ---snip--- chainloader +1 } to /etc/grub.d/40-custom. Insert before the end of file b. make /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober n o t executable In this way your win7 entry will always exists in your boot menu HTH Peter * Englisch - erkannt * Englisch * Deutsch * Thailändisch * Englisch * Deutsch * Thailändisch javascript:void(0); * Englisch * Deutsch * Thailändisch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Same thing happened to me on 12.3
I used Yast > Bootloader > Bootloader options
and ticket the box that said probe Foreign OS
after that my windows installation showed back up.
On 3 April 2015 at 13:53, Peter Sikorski GTL
From time to time I switch to Windows (7), as I do the last two decennia. To my Big Surprise it is no longer possible. When I restart I get only opensuse choices. At the moment I use Tumbleweed 20150330. How can I return to the previous choices?
If you use grub2 try the following:
1. in /etc/grub.d check if all files are executable. Specially 30_os-prober. if not, make all of them executable (als root)
2. open terminal as root 3. grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (grub2 checks now for all installed OS-Systems and writes a new config-file.)
then try to reboot and pray...
if all work fine now then maybe you should do the following (all as root)
a. copy from the file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg everything that points to your Win7 should look like this:
menuentry 'Microsoft Windows' --class windows --class os ---snip--- ---snip--- chainloader +1 }
to /etc/grub.d/40-custom. Insert before the end of file
b. make /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober n o t executable
In this way your win7 entry will always exists in your boot menu
HTH Peter
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A. den Oudsten -
Billie Walsh -
jdd -
Ken Schneider - openSUSE -
Paul Groves -
Per Jessen -
Peter Sikorski GTL -
Thomas Taylor