I initially had Vista and OpenSuse installed on 2 separate partitions and I could choose what OS to run from the GRUB bootloader. My Vista installation got corrupted and I have had to reinstall Vista by formatting the Vista partition. But now my computer only loads Vista when I power it on and I cant find a way to run OpenSuse. What is the best way to dual boot OpenSuse and Vista now?
Thanks
Ishan
On 2009-01-29, ish90an <ish90an@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> I initially had Vista and OpenSuse installed on 2 separate partitions
> and I could choose what OS to run from the GRUB bootloader. My Vista
> installation got corrupted and I have had to reinstall Vista by
> formatting the Vista partition. But now my computer only loads Vista
> when I power it on and I cant find a way to run OpenSuse. What is the
> best way to dual boot OpenSuse and Vista now?
> Thanks
> Ishan
Put the installation dvd in the dvd, reboot ( eventually change boot
order to boot from dvd ), chose to install and when you are prompted
chose to interrupt installation. It will gives you an error, chose ok,
then ( if I good remember ) you have to chose to continue installation,
then chose " boot installed system ", chose the root ( / ) partition
and when you are in, open a terminal and give
grub-install /dev/sda
where sda is the first disk.
>
Hi. You can use the repair facilities on the openSUSE install DVD to reinstall a quite elementary Grub. That gets you into Suse again. From there you can use Yast’s bootloader to reinstall the expanded Grub that includes vista. And that puts you back where you were. There’s more on the details here:
GRUB Boot Multiboot openSUSE Windows (2000, XP, Vista) using the Grub bootloader.
Please do not attempt to do as suggested in post #2. The “grub-install” script in openSUSE is not the same as in other distros (in SuSE that script is "grub-install.unsupported). This script will feed the grub shell the installation command from /etc/grub.conf, created previously by YaST - which may or may not be what you want.
Instead, follow @swerdna’s howto. Or, set Vista up to boot openSUSE rather than SuSE booting Vista.
Il 2009-01-29, mingus725 <mingus725@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> ha scritto:
>
> Please do not attempt to do as suggested in post #2. The “grub-install”
> script in openSUSE is not the same as in other distros (in SuSE that
> script is "grub-install.unsupported). This script will feed the grub
> shell the installation command from /etc/grub.conf, created previously
> by YaST - which may or may not be what you want.
>
> Instead, follow @swerdna’s howto. Or, set Vista up to boot openSUSE
> rather than SuSE booting Vista.
>
I use that command since a lot. And works.
Thank’you