Ronald Wiplinger schreef:

I had installed on a new hard disk (SATA) Opensuse 10.3 on an AMD64. It works!

Now I need to get all the old settings from the old hard disk (IDE), and till I am finished with the transition, I would like to be able to boot either old or new system. The first problem I had was that the BIOS used IDE as first boot and so it only booted the new system. I could change that and the BIOS uses SATA as the first boot drive. When I tried to boot the old system with the SATA (SuSE 10.3) as first boot drive, SuSE 9.2 did not boot, just stopped.

I believe it is just a GRUB settings. I never messed with GRUB. Can you give me a hint how to do that? Or could it be another problem, or do you have another suggestion?

bye

Ronald

Most likely the name of the drive and partitions are not correct anymore. Are you able to mount the 'old' drive? That way you can access the /boot/grub/menu.lst, and see what entrance is used. Than you check your /etc/fstab to see how the 'old' drive is called now. The partition number which points to your 'old' system, should be used in the grub you use, probably the new one. So you take (copy) all info from your 'old' menu.lst, change the partitionnumber, and past it into your new grub. If done correct, dual boot should be possible. -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) Besturingssysteem: Linux 2.6.24.1-6-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha2 KDE: 4.0.2 (KDE 4.0.2) "release 8.1" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org