Dual Booting Opensuse Life with PClinuxOS

English Install/Boot/Login
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Good afternoon,

Newbie wants ask. I have been installing dual booting operating system, Opensuse Life (Link: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-12.3-latest-i686.iso) with PCLIinuxOS (Link: FullMonty Desktop) where Opensuse installed in /dev/sda1 and PCLinuxOS installed in /dev/sda2, after finish installing then try boot PCLinuxOS I get fail :’( and in my monitor I get message: “kernel panic” :(, please give me solution how to configure grub.cfg in order that I can booting PCLinuxOS? I attached the file of grub.cfg of opensuse (/boot/grub2/grub.cfg… File: https://www.facebook.com/download/597481373622097/grub.cfg)…

Folser contain in /boot/ (Opensuse):

-rw-r–r-- backup_mbr
lrwxrwxrwx boot → .
-rw-r–r-- boot.readme
-rw-r–r-- config-3.7.10-1.4-default
-rw-r–r-- do_purge_kernels
drwxr-xr-x grub
drwxr-xr-x grub2
lrwxrwxrwx grub2-efi → grub2
lrwxrwxrwx initrd → initrd-3.7.10-1.4-default
-rw-r–r-- initrd-3.7.10-1.4-default
-rw-r–r-- memtest.bin
-rw-r–r-- message
-rw-r–r-- symtypes-3.7.10-1.4-default.gz
-rw-r–r-- symtypes-3.7.10-1.4-desktop.gz
-rw-r–r-- symtypes-3.7.10-1.4-pae.gz
-rw-r–r-- symtypes-3.7.10-1.4-xen.gz
-rw-r–r-- symvers-3.7.10-1.4-default.gz
-rw-r–r-- sysctl.conf-3.7.10-1.4-default
-rw-r–r-- System.map-3.7.10-1.4-default
-rw-r–r-- vmlinux-3.7.10-1.4-default.gz
lrwxrwxrwx vmlinuz → vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.4-default
-rw-r–r-- vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.4-default

Folder contain in /boot/ (PCLinuxOS):

-rw-rw-r-- boot.backup.sda
lrwxrwxrwx config → config-3.4.55-pclos1
-rw-r–r-- config-3.4.55-pclos1
-rwxr-xr-x gfxmenu
drwxr-xr-x grub
-rw------- initrd-3.4.55-pclos1.img
lrwxrwxrwx initrd.img → initrd-3.4.55-pclos1.img
lrwxrwxrwx kernel.h → /boot/kernel.h-3.4.55-pclos1
-rw-r–r-- kernel.h-3.4.55-pclos1
-rw-r–r-- memtest-4.20
-rw-r–r-- message-graphic
lrwxrwxrwx System.map → System.map-3.4.55-pclos1
-rw-r–r-- System.map-3.4.55-pclos1
-rw-rw-r-- us.klt
lrwxrwxrwx vmlinuz → vmlinuz-3.4.55-pclos1
-rw-r–r-- vmlinuz-3.4.55-pclos1

Notabene: Opensuse life is varian from opensuse 12.3 using grub2 to boot, laptop specification: Dell Inspiron N4030, Intel GMA/VGA Standard, core i3.

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If openSUSE boots OK and it is opneSUSE grub that is controlling booting…
Boot openSUSE and do this:

su -
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

You will be asked for your password when doing su -

Please then post the feed back after running: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

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This result after write code: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

animax@linux-hdz7:~> su -
Password:
linux-hdz7:~ # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub.cfg …
Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.4-default
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-3.7.10-1.4-default
Found memtest image: /boot/memtest.bin
No volume groups found
Found PCLinuxOS on /dev/sda2
done

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OK
So if you reboot, is pclos still not working

PCLinuxOS uses grub legacy (just so everyone knows)

You could revert back to PCLinuxOS grub by following this
https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/caf4926/re-install-grub-quickly-parted-magic-88/

Then add an entry to your pclos menu.lst like this for openSUSE

title openSUSE
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash
    initrd /initrd.img

Which I think should work. If not we can revert you back.

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I am succesfull to boot PCLinuxOS with step by step that you explain but now I cannot boot openSUSE?:frowning:

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Let us see from pclos your menu.lst
and: fdisk -l
Confirm which partition is which again please

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contain of menu.lst in /dev/sda2 (/boot/grub/menu.lst):

gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0
timeout 5
color black/cyan yellow/cyan

title openSUSE
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img

title PCLinuxos
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=PCLinuxos root=UUID=74b03ccf-1bf2-4e57-8ec2-e0e2ec1aa562 quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=bb94285b-327c$
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img

title PCLinuxOS_FullMonty(failsafe)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=PCLinuxOS_FullMonty(failsafe) root=UUID=74b03ccf-1bf2-4e57-8ec2-e0e2ec1aa562 failsafe vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img

title memtest-4.20
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/memtest-4.20 BOOT_IMAGE=memtest-4.20

697×309 57.1 KB

/dev/sda1 –> opensuse
/dev/sda2 –> pclinuxos

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OK try this one

title openSUSE
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1