How to boot back into Ubuntu after OpenSUSE 11.0 install

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I just today installed OpenSUSE 11.0 on an empty drive I had (320GB) and I had Ubuntu 10.04 on another 500 GB drive, and I have now lost my GRUB menu. Below is the output from FDISK. Can anyone tell me how to modify bootloader? I’d prefer to boot from the OpenSUSE side and just have Ubuntu as an option. Thanks so much!

Ubuntu (which is on sda drive) along with OpenSUSE 11.0 (which is on sdb drive):

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000168d7

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 60070 482512243+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 60071 60801 5871757+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 60071 60801 5871726 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00089aa2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 2611 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 2612 38913 291595815 83 Linux

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#Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: none#
title      Ubuntu 10.04 
root       (hd0,0)
kernel     /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash
initrd     /initrd.img

add that to your grub menu

or another alternative is to re-install Ubuntu grub this way:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Recover%20Grub%202%20via%20LiveCD

following that you should be able to boot Ubuntu and probably openSUSE, but if not, just run this from Ub:

sudo update-grub

And BTW
openSUSE 11. is no longer supported

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thanks so much caf4926! You think I should dist-upgrade to 11.1? Every time I do that, it breaks everything. I guess I could do a clean re-install on another partition, would what you do? Just curious. Thanks!

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Truly, I would say make plans to do a new install of either 11.2 or 11.3

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is 11.0 or 11.1 still supported???

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11.0 no 11.1 5 or six more months