hello people i need some help since i installed opensuse 11.2 when i boot my pc, grub doesnt show me windows to boot only opensuse and failsafe this is my details
Did you tried to add it from YaST -> boot loader.
Maybe this would the easy way.
Click add -> choose chianloader, and add the entries there.
In section name insert name for the selection in grub (Windows 7).
choose the right partition in the next step below(maybe sda1 or sda2).
And save it and then try.
I am not so sure, but you can give it try.
Hey caf4926:
Does it look like the installer mucked with the partitioning, it all seems to be wrapped in an extended envelope?
And look at device.map: it shows hd0 and hd1, with hd1 mapped to sda, but menu.lst uses hd0, isn’t that strange?
On further examination, sda1 is a primary partition, being the extended partition that wraps sda5+6+7. And sda2 is on higher cylinders than all of those, presumably as a primary partition. But being on higher cylinders, was it installed after openSUSE I wonder? Or was it installed first and then moved up the disk by e.g. gparted.
Can you help us with the sequence of installations Mabf000?
This is my concern. I can’t imagine it was the case that windows was installed after suse. And if it was I would expect way better partitioning than that because probably only someone who knows what they are doing would even do it that way.
My guess is, this is probably borked and will need re-doing. It needs re-doing just because it’s such a darn mess. But I was thinking - what the heck, give it a go, so offered what I though to be the correct entry for the menu.
I have only 1 hard disc and i slit this one in 2 partitions one with windows 7 and the other with opensuse 11.2, i first install windows 7 test it and then I install opensuse
Erase it all is my advice and start again
It should look something like this:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20673 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x93900d8b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9017 68163763+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 9017 11235 16771829 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 11235 20674 71352666+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 11235 11651 3140676 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 11651 20674 68211958+ 83 Linux
The only thing I would say is sda2 is a primary, it doesn’t have to be. It could have had sda2 as the extended and everything else as logical inside it.
Use Parted Magic to delete all the Partitions. Create a ntfs partition the size you want for windows and leave the rest unpartitioned.
Install windows
Let it update
You can view the images and download a video. It’s just to show the principle of it. The FAT32 partition at sda1 is very small, but just imagine it’s you windows 7 install on your sda1
thank u very much guys, yes i was thinking to star over and make a better instalation and one last question how can i see all the windows files because i need to backup some files but i cant find windows folder on suse