Installing 11.2 alongside Ubuntu

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First, thanks to all those who answer questions here. I’ve got very useful info from these forums.

I’d just like to offer a few notes on dual-booting 11.2 with Ubuntu, since it took me a bit of searching to find the right information myself.

I started with Ubuntu, and have just installed 11.2. Unfortunately, the version of grub which comes with 11.2 has problems recognising other Linux distros, so it didn’t install Ubuntu as a boot option. I tried to do it manually, but unsuccessfully - perhaps someone here can clear up how to do that.

Instead, I followed the instructions for reinstalling grub2 here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20GRUB%202, which enabled me to get back into my Ubuntu installation. I then installed grub via the terminal (I think with grub-install, though I’m not sure), and then used update-grub (this information came from this very helpful page: GRUB2 Linux bash Commands). That automatically found opensuse and added it to the grub menu the next time I rebooted.

I hope that’s some help.

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This may help
HowTo Multiboot openSUSE from Ubuntu using the GRUB bootloader

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Thanks for that method for adding openSUSE into Ubuntu’s loader.

Yast’s bootloader module often includes other Linux distros by pointing to their menu files using the line:

configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

which sadly doesn’t work reliably.

For other readers, here’s a better method for adding Ubuntu into openSUSE’s loader:
HowTo Multiboot Ubuntu from openSUSE using the GRUB bootloader
It uses the permanent symlinks that the Ubu programmers put in the root directory.

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Hi,
I just did right now by Yast2 in openSUSE and it’s work for me.
First of all I had before Ubuntu 9.10 than installed alongside openSUSE 11.2. SUSE uses swap from Ubuntu and just added two extra partitions for root and home. After installation SUSE’s GRUB is main and I had lost boot to Ubuntu from it (it didn’t recognized automatically Ubuntu). So in openSUSE I mounted partition with Ubuntu (what is shared home and root where is boot folder and kernel info). Than go to the YaST2-System-Boot Loader-Add(bottom left)-Image section-Next.
Now:
1)in section name choose name for entry (for me Desktop – Ubuntu 9.10 - 2.6.31-14) and leave empty ‘Do not verify Filesystem’ and ‘Enable SELinux’;;
2)kernel image - browse to the mounted before Ubuntu partition (computer-media-your partition)-boot folder-find vmlinuz file with kernel (after reboot it will automatically changed to (hd0,x);
3)initial ram disk - browse to the mounted before Ubuntu partition-boot folder-find initrd file with kernel (after reboot it will automatically changed to (hd0,x);
4)VGA (for my machine 1024x768, 16 bits (mode 0x317) - chek for you in edit desktop opensuse entry);
5)root device - choose Ubuntu partition with home-root sharing;
6)for me (resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS541612J9SA00_SB2541H6GX8N4E-part6 splash=silent quiet showopts) – chek for you in edit desktop opensuse entry).
Press OK, Reboot and go to Ubuntu from new entry openSUSE’s GRUB.
Should work.

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Cool. Need one using this technique to confirm it does work.
Then maybe should be a sticky for a while to help those ubuntu users trying opensuse. MHO.

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http://img03.imagefra.me/img/img03/1/11/14/f_ouvpqcx1gcem_3b05951.png](http://imagefra.me/)

That is new entry for Ubuntu boot…

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Last Optinal Kernel Command Line Parameter depends if I not mistaken from swap partition what is the same in my case for Ubuntu and openSUSE.

In the future when Ubuntu Kernel will be updated I think it should be manually updated again with new Ubuntu kernel info…

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[QUOTE=pave_FM;2066185]Hi,
I just did right now by Yast2 in openSUSE and it’s work for me.
First of all I had before Ubuntu 9.10 than installed alongside openSUSE 11.2. SUSE uses swap from Ubuntu and just added two extra partitions for root and home. After installation SUSE’s GRUB is main and I had lost boot to Ubuntu from it (it didn’t recognized automatically Ubuntu). So in openSUSE I mounted partition with Ubuntu (what is shared home and root where is boot folder and kernel info). Than go to the YaST2-System-Boot Loader-Add(bottom left)-Image section-Next.
Now:
1)in section name choose name for entry (for me Desktop – Ubuntu 9.10 - 2.6.31-14) and leave empty ‘Do not verify Filesystem’ and ‘Enable SELinux’;;
2)kernel image - browse to the mounted before Ubuntu partition (computer-media-your partition)-boot folder-find vmlinuz file with kernel (after reboot it will automatically changed to (hd0,x);
3)initial ram disk - browse to the mounted before Ubuntu partition-boot folder-find initrd file with kernel (after reboot it will automatically changed to (hd0,x);
4)VGA (for my machine 1024x768, 16 bits (mode 0x317) - chek for you in edit desktop opensuse entry);
5)root device - choose Ubuntu partition with home-root sharing;
6)for me (resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS541612J9SA00_SB2541H6GX8N4E-part6 splash=silent quiet showopts) – chek for you in edit desktop opensuse entry).
Press OK, Reboot and go to Ubuntu from new entry openSUSE’s GRUB.
Should work.

It worked perfect for me! Thanks!:slight_smile:http://img01.imagefra.me/img/img01/1/11/14/f_ouvpqcx1gcem_399fa68.png