Grub doesn't display Win7 boot

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Updated 12.2 to 12.3.
On reboot can only find 12.3 and an earlier version of 12.1.

Formerly GRUB used to come up with 4 possible boot sequences Suse12.2 (with advanced), Suse12.1, Win7 and Lenovo recovery.
How do I amend GRUB to get back to my 4 possible boot sequences?

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Are you using grub2 (default now) if so,

Please try the following,

  1. Mount all drives related to the other operating systems via Dolphin or whatever method you prefer.
  2. Start the YaST2 bootloader module and change at least one setting such as “timeout” and also check that the settings are correct and match what you had when everything booted correctly.

Once you do this YaST2 should rebuild the grub2 menu.
Restart your computer and see what happens, did it work?

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Tried doing as advised. Mounted Win7 virtual disk. Changed timeout to 10". Reboot brought up just the 12.3 boot.

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Run os-prober, if it does not show all operating systems you expect paste output here, also upload /var/log/messages to SUSE Paste and post link here.

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After much firtling in the bootloader finally found a box “include foreign OS”. Ticked, re-booted and all the boot alternatives came back.

Thanks for the help, you got me looking in the correct place!!

You’ll note that on this desktop I’m sticking firmly to 12.2 until I’ve found all the wrinkles of the latest release.rotfl!

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Oh good lord yes, please check foreign OS if you want Windows to show up. Why that box is not on by default or labeled MS Windows I have no idea.

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I could be even a MAC :slight_smile:

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lol! Well that thing could contain anything after all it is “foreign”. Might not even contain language we can decipher but grub2 can do it, thats what scares off the legacy grub folks ;).