Quote:
Originally Posted by swerdna
I can't help with the xwindow problem but with the bootloader: you need to reinstall Grub using Yast to recalculate the entries for Grub's menu. Do this after booting into openSUSE:
The quote comes from here: GRUB Boot Multiboot openSUSE Windows (2000, XP, Vista) using the Grub bootloader.
The new Grub menu should contain an entry for vista. If that entry has problems, make sure it looks like this in menu.lst:
where x,y is most often 0,0 for vista on the first partition. If puzzled, post here the menu.lst entry that you find for vista together with the return you get in a terminal when you enter this command:
Code:
sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
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linux-n2vd:~ # sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2bab9524
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1306 10490413+ 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 1307 9237 63697725 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 9237 19457 82099747+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 9237 9499 2104080 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 9499 12109 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 12110 19457 59022778+ 83 Linux
linux-n2vd:~ #