Hi, I’am new in this forum, I’am glad to be here.I have already downloaded open Suse 11.04, but I have a few questions before installing in the laptop, where I have got installed Ubuntu 11.04 .As you surely know this Ubuntu uses Grub2.Does open Suse 11.04 use grub2 as well?,If does, I think, I shouldn’t have problem installing this one in another partition. I’d like to know what trouble I can expect or everything will go fine. Thank you very much!!!:
No it uses legacy grub. Basically you must decide which OS is going to control the boot and use the rules that apply to that boot process.
No, it uses Legacy Grub.
Just install openSUSE’s Grub in its root partition.
By default, openSUSE’s overwrites Grub2 bootloader with a generic bootcode. To avoid that, explicitely uncheck “Write generic bootcode to MBR” in Boot loader options during setup (this is not obvious, you have to click twice to see this dialog). At next boot, openSUSE is not going to start as expected to finish the installation. Instead you’ll boot into Grub2. Boot Ubuntu and type the following command in a terminal:
sudo /usr/sbin/update-grub
This will add a boot entry for openSUSE in Grub2.
Reboot and select openSUSE to finish the installation.
There are other methods, but this is the fastest one.
For those who wonder about what openSUSE version this is: It is about openSUSE 11.4.
Just a typo of the OP.
You can (an you should) share the swap partition but do not reformat it (it would change ist UUID and Ubuntu wouldn’t be able to find it - until you edit /etc/fstab).
Thank you for all the tips you gave me, when coming to installation I probably ask you a few more things.
On 09/04/2011 03:46 PM, Guillito58 wrote:
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> I have a few questions before installing in the laptop
read and take heed of all of this and you should go smooth (and, they
will probably answer most of the questions you might have, even before
you know you have them!):
http://tinyurl.com/ubuntu-to-openSUSE
NOTE: to others here who have given advice to this OP, see the above
how-to transition from Ubuntu and please add your improving comments to
that thread, also…tia
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DD
Caveat
Hi DenverD, I have installed openSUSE 11.4, but not taking care of partitions, so that I can boot only with openSUSE and I’d like to recover and also boot from Ubuntu as well, for sure you know what stanza to write to recover Ubuntu’s booting.please I need help with this!!!
Might be easiest for you to use this
updategrub for openSUSE Legacy Grub (not update-grub!)