Hi all,
Can I change the way that the dual boot windows looks?
I really hate it.
I prefer it like a dos style: minimalistic.
Can I change it?
On 2013-02-27, triger772 <triger772@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can I change the way that the dual boot windows looks?
> I really hate it.
> I prefer it like a dos style: minimalistic.
I (and I suspect many others) don’t mean by the way that the dual boot windows looks'. If you really mean the way Windows looks after installing a dual boot than you're in the wrong forum (and I don't know the right forum exists for you). If you mean the way openSUSE looks after a dual boot, then remove your KDE/GNOME/etc... desktop environment (or just boot into runlevel 3). If you mean GRUB/GRUB2, you're going to have to be more specific what you mean. I know GRUB Legacy offers a minimalistic style but I don't know what you mean by dos style’. GRUB2 is just too fancy for me, so I
can’t help you if you’re using that.
On 2013-02-27, triger772 <triger772@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Can I change it?
Assuming you mean the boot-loader, yes. Just go to YaST->System->Boot Loader.
I will try to make myself clearer:
I have both windows 8 and OpenSUSE 12.2 on my computer.
When I start my computer there is a menu to choose with OS I want to load.
The window/menu that I can choose which OS to load is not looks like I want.
I want a black window/menu with lines like the output of this code (c language):
printf(“1) OpenSUSE 12”);
printf("
2) Windows 8");
like dos/terminal looks.
I don’t want all the graphics menu like it now.
Can I change it?
In this case, your subject ‘dual boot windows’ of your thread was just misleading !
You should have chosen the subject ‘I don’t like the layout of the GRUB menu’ instead !!
If that’s the only problem for you, then this probably is the wrong forum.
Thank you.
Where it will be the right place to ask?
OK, OK.
You really have chuzpe.
I guess the forum was the right one - because where else should you ask questions about boot loaders ? 
Only the topic of your thread was wrong, because it points to problems of dual booting that are critical with respect to using a PC at all.
I’m not an expert whith legacy GRUB or GRUB 2.
But what I can tell you is that legacy GRUB until openSUSE 12.1 in winter time sometimes displays a box around the boot entries
with snow and ice on it and a penguin walking on top of that.
It looks really nice, and me and especially my children do enjoy that.
This looks much nicer than
You would probably enjoy that winter scene of GRUB too, but I just can’t tell you how to get that.
Perhaps you should focus on what you really want.
That seems to be a running openSUSE.
For how many seconds a day do you see the GRUB screen with the boot entries ??
Mike
I solve it!
YAST->boot loader->boot loader options->uncheck “Use graphical console”
Now it looks better.
Thanks guys.
why dual boot anyway where there are things like virtual machines
Only reason I know is if you want to run high end games that don’t run under wine. Even after years I still get a kick in booting XP in a Linux window.
I’m a student who study EEE and I need some heavy programs to use like MATLAB, Multisim, Visual studio, Microsoft office and etc. In addition, I’m photographer and I need all the Adobe tools like Photoshop and Bridge.
That is way I do keep windows 8 along Opensuse.
Not sure how well newer versions run, but I have Photoshop 5.5, 7.0, as well as Elements, and they run superbly under Wine, faster than they do in Windows. Not sure how well later versions of Office run, but the older ones work pretty well. I would be willing to bet that several of your programs (but probably not all) would work in Wine. Definitely worth looking into.
Regarding games, very few run very well in Wine, at least from my experience. though admittedly I’m not much of a gamer these days.
I wish I had time to be a gamer again…
Since age 18 I can’t remember when I play a “real” game.
Thank you for this information, I will check it out.
On 2013-02-28, triger772 <triger772@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> I’m a student who study EEE and I need some heavy programs to use like
> MATLAB, Multisim, Visual studio, Microsoft office and etc. In addition,
> I’m photographer and I need all the Adobe tools like Photoshop and
> Bridge.
> That is way I do keep windows 8 along Opensuse.
If you’re using MATLAB, Visual Studio, and MSOffice within Windows, why are you even bothering with openSUSE at all? I’m
surprised that as an EEE student (I assume EEE = electric and electronic engineering), your choice of software is so
Windows-based (and yes I work in a University, but my student days are but a distant memory). For each of these
packages, there are much more suitable choices for scientists (especially in the field of EEE!) within Linux (e.g. Linux
MATLAB, gcc, and LaTeX) as any University engineering department would tell you.
Although openSUSE isn’t geared as much towards science compared to Scientific Linux, it does a remarkably good job.
Notwithstanding this, I let my students install whatever distro they want as long as it’s kernel 3.x or later and 64
bit, because that’s all that really matters to me. I prefer rpm/deb - based distros because it’s just easier to install
binaries, but if they insist on Arch/Gentoo, they’re usually competent enough to look after themselves. I just use
openSUSE because it’s what I’ve used since the twentieth century and just too lazy to change. But if a student came to
me suggesting Windows, I’d wonder if they’re in the wrong Department and whether I should direct them towards the
Department of Business and Management…