I have an old netbook I dual-boot with Windows and openSUSE 13.2. I figured since I wasn’t using the Windows 7 partition I would try the Windows 10 Preview. The computer meet the system’s minimum requirements (barely).
Of course Microsoft doesn’t like to share the computer with anybody (though it is getting better) so booting up no longer goes to Grub with the option to start openSUSE or Windows. Thankfully, though, I was given the option to what partition to install it on and I chose the Windows partition. So I am assuming that openSUSE is still located in its partitions.
The computer is a traditional BIOS, not UEFI.
How do I fix this so Grub works again when I cannot get into the installed Linux? I think the command is ‘grub-config’ or something. Do I need to run a live Linux session and chroot or something???
I’m trying 10 out on this system because it is NOT my main system, though since I installed openSUSE w/KDE the system has worked better than with any other iteration I’ve tried (including Xfce and Lxde)!
On Wed 28 Jan 2015 02:46:05 PM CST, dragonbite wrote:
I have an old netbook I dual-boot with Windows and openSUSE 13.2. I
figured since I wasn’t using the Windows 7 partition I would try the
Windows 10 Preview. The computer meet the system’s minimum requirements
(barely).
Of course Microsoft doesn’t like to share the computer with anybody
(though it is getting better) so booting up no longer goes to Grub with
the option to start openSUSE or Windows. Thankfully, though, I was
given the option to what partition to install it on and I chose the
Windows partition. So I am assuming that openSUSE is still located in
its partitions.
The computer is a traditional BIOS, not UEFI.
How do I fix this so Grub works again when I cannot get into the
installed Linux? I think the command is ‘grub-config’ or something. Do
I need to run a live Linux session and chroot or something???
I’m trying 10 out on this system because it is NOT my main system,
though since I installed openSUSE w/KDE the system has worked better
than with any other iteration I’ve tried (including Xfce and Lxde)!
Thanks
Hi
How is the system setup partition wise? Did you install the openSUSE
bootcode in mbr, extended or /boot?
If you boot from an openSUSE rescue system, where was/is the boot flag
set on the drive?
I normally keep the openSUSE and windows bootcode separate, eg use the
extended partition.
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I’m not interested in flamewars. It was serious question - all my experience shows that Windows on legacy BIOS will install bootloader on the first disk. I was curious if it changed.
On 2015-01-28 16:56, dragonbite wrote:
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> I’ll have to check. I usually try to put the boot controls into a
> separate partition when I dual-boot.
I know nothing about W10, but “obviously” it will have overwritten the
MBR with his own, and set the partition you installed to, to boot.
That’s how it has always been done.
What you have to do is decide how to alter that so that it boots grub,
which depends on where grub is installed. If it was on MBR, it is now
lost, and you have to install it again, preferably somewhere else.
Roughly
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