Dual OS: Vista and openSUSE 11.2

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#1

Hi,
I was having vista on my laptop and I installed openSUSE 11.2. But Vista now appears as as folder named Windows/C/ etc in main file system. How do I get dual OS? any help pls?

Thank you.

Pls find the following:

ind@linux-mwxv:~/Desktop> sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
root's password:
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Apr  9 15:29:28 BST 2010
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader

default 0
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.12-0.2
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9160821AS_5MA1F4SM-part3 repair=1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9160821AS_5MA1F4SM-part4 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.12-0.2
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9160821AS_5MA1F4SM-part3 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop


###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9160821AS_5MA1F4SM-part3    repair=1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9160821AS_5MA1F4SM-part4 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd


###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9160821AS_5MA1F4SM-part3 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd
ind@linux-mwxv:~/Desktop>

AND ALSO

linux-mwxv:/ # 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: 0xaf450c3b

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1216     9764864   27  Unknown
/dev/sda2            1217       11589    83321122+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3   *       11590       18935    59006745   83  Linux
/dev/sda4           18936       19457     4192965   82  Linux swap / Solaris
#2

Please find this additional information as well. Thank you.

linux-mwxv:/ # mount
/dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/sda2 on /windows/C type fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ind/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ind)
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
linux-mwxv:/ #
#3

add to your menu.lst

title Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

But Vista now appears as as folder named Windows/C/ etc in main file system.
What you see is normal, it is just the mount point for your windows partition.

#4

To edit the file as lost farmer suggests, use either the kde or gnome method according to what you use

kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst

gnomesu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
#5

Thank you.

#6

Thank You very much for the care you have taken. It worked well.