I’m trying to dual boot OpenSuSE. Here’s the output from my attempts to update grub2
~ : Yes, Supreme Empress? $ sudo update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic-pae
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found openSUSE 11.3 (i586) on /dev/sda4
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda4. Check your device.map.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda4. Check your device.map.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda4. Check your device.map.
done
~ : Yes, Supreme Empress? $
My install of OpenSuSE died when it attempted to install grub legacy to the / partition I’d assigned it. Though OpenSuSE appears in my grub2 boot menu, it won’t boot. The error given is something like “no device found, you must mount kernel, press any key to continue”. I can’t remember it precisely, but that’s the gist. Grub legacy must not have installed, and now grub2 can’t properly boot it.
Honestly if you’re installing 11.3, find and download 11.2.
I am a big fan of opensuse but 11.3 was nothing but problems
straight out of the gate for me.I wouldn’t want you to waste a lot
of time setting up GRUB only to find out the distro itself is plagued.
(my opinion of course, ymmv)
Thanks for giving OpenSuSE a spin, but the conversion rate from .deb base
buntu to .rpm OpenSuSE or vice versa seems to be fairly low. They are just
different enough to make one or the other person insane. In any case, I hope
you have a good experience I think KDE on SuSE is the best there is.