How to edit the Boot menu to add Windows
Sometimes, post install, the option to boot windows is missing from the Grub boot menu. To add an entry we will typically need two bits of information first.
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[li]The result of fdisk -l from a su - terminal. See Eg: YouTube - su - fdisk.mpeg [/li][li]The result of this from a su - terminal: cat /boot/grub/menu.lst [/li][/ol]
The purpose of this guide is just to tell you how to edit the file menu.lst, located at /boot/grub/menu.lst
This file provides the options you see in the Grub menu when you boot your computer.
Ideally then, you start a thread posting the above two pieces of information and use the instruction here to edit the menu file.
KDE Users:
Open a normal user terminal and paste this code in with your mouse:
kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
enter password when requested and you can now edit the file and save when done
Gnome Users:
Open a normal user terminal and paste this code in with your mouse:
gnomesu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
enter password when requested and you can now edit the file and save when done.
Links:
SDB:All about GRUB - openSUSE
GRUB Boot Multiboot openSUSE Windows (2000, XP, Vista) using the Grub bootloader.