On 06/20/2007 09:46 PM, Fernando Costa wrote:

I'm planning to install some linux distros (openSUSE is the first one I've installed), I already have done the disk partitioning, including one partition to install GRUB, so I installed the grub on the boot partitioning, however when I installed openSUSE 10.2, it (apparently) overwrites my existing GRUB partition, because when I restart my laptop the openSUSE's and not my GRUB starts. So, there's a way to install the boot on the openSUSE's root? Or how can I use openSUSE's grub to run the other distros?

First, you had installed the other distro's grub into the MBR of your drive, and then installed opensuse's grub over top of it. This is not a problem. However, I am surprised that the opensuse installer did not find the other distro and recommend to include an entry in opensuse's grub menu. You need to add one or more entries from the other distro's grub menu into the opensuse menu, as follows: 1. boot opensuse, and if necessary mount the partition that contains the other distro's /boot directory. I will make these assumptions: a) the root (/) partition for opensuse is /dev/hda2, and the root partition for the other distro is /dev/hda1. b) neither distribution has a separate partition for /boot. c) you have mounted the other distro as /mnt (ie. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt). 2. Make a backup copy of opensuse's /boot/grub/menu.lst. 3. Now you need to open /boot/grub/menu.lst (the grub menu for opensuse) and /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst (the grub menu for the other distro) in a text editor. The menu file for the other distro will include a section that will look something like this: title (some other distro) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=normal selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/hdb3 showopts initrd /boot/initrd You need to copy these lines exactly as they appear from (other distro)/menu.lst into the opensuse menu.lst. 4. Save the modified /boot/grub/menu.lst. The next time you boot the system the menu item for the other distro will be there for you to select (though why you would want to have any other distro than opensuse on your system is something I do not understand :-) ) -- Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. -- François de La Rochefoucauld -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Fernando Costa wrote:

I'm planning to install some linux distros (openSUSE is the first one I've installed), I already have done the disk partitioning, including one partition to install GRUB, so I installed the grub on the boot partitioning, however when I installed openSUSE 10.2, it (apparently) overwrites my existing GRUB partition, because when I restart my laptop the openSUSE's and not my GRUB starts. So, there's a way to install the boot on the openSUSE's root? Or how can I use openSUSE's grub to run the other distros?

Thanks for your help....

I have this computer triple booted, Now I have to say right up front that my computer has a built in boot loader. During the "POST" it comes up as <F2 For Bios> and <F10 For Boot Sequence>. I use one IDE drive and, so far, two SATA drives. Whichever drive I want to install on I disconnect the power to all the other drives before I install. That way each drive thinks it's the only one in the machine. Now, I know there are ways to set up all the OS's in Grub, BUT when I had things that way and I needed to do something to the drive that had Grub on it I was pretty much screwed. I would loose Grub or had to futz around for hours trying to get things working again. Tain't worth the hastle. I simply pick which drive I want to boot from and I'm off and running. This method only works with one IDE and SATA drives and a boot loader other than Grub. A slave IDE won't work. Somehow the bios doesn't like to boot from a slave directly. Even with the bios settings for it to do so. SATA drives don't have Master/Slave relationships so they work. -- (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass them on! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org