In some spooky way I managed to install Mandriva and have windows in all its flavours in working order, however Suse is still a challenge too far. I have one partition to spare, divided it up into one main and one for swap and tried to get the installer to understand that one should be / and the other swap and that they had to be formatted to ext4. I think I succeeded in doing that. However, I then want to get a working bootloader with working entries for Windows AND Mandriva. The installer wants to know all kinds of stuff and I have no clue what to tell it in order to have a working bootloader or GRUB or whatever. Any help is most welcome.
The swap should not be formated to ext4 it is just swap let the installer choose the file system for swap. If you have other Linuxs installed then you can just use the same swap partitions for all.
You need to tell use at least some of all those question the installer asks??
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If you have things working w/Mandriva then you can probably reuse the
entires from Grub (in /boot/grub/menu.lst I believe on the Mandriva side)
which allow you to start Mandriva and any other OS and put those entries
in the Grub menu.lst file which SUSE then uses (or put the SUSE entries in
Mandriva’s menu.lst… whatever). All Grub usually needs is to know what
is loading (a Linux kernel or something else) and where (which partition)
and then it’s just a matter of making sure the BIOS properly finds Grub
for Grub to do its job.
Good luck.
LennartII wrote:
> In some spooky way I managed to install Mandriva and have windows in all
> its flavours in working order, however Suse is still a challenge too
> far. I have one partition to spare, divided it up into one main and one
> for swap and tried to get the installer to understand that one should be
> / and the other swap and that they had to be formatted to ext4. I think
> I succeeded in doing that. However, I then want to get a working
> bootloader with working entries for Windows AND Mandriva. The installer
> wants to know all kinds of stuff and I have no clue what to tell it in
> order to have a working bootloader or GRUB or whatever. Any help is most
> welcome.
>
>
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If you plan to use the Mandriva bootloader then you can edit this entry into the /boot/grub/menu.lst file of Mandriva to boot openSUSE from the Mandriva boot menu:
# Swerdna's entry to boot the openSUSE installation on /dev/sda5 by symlinks
title openSUSE 11.1 (on /dev/sda5) by symlinks
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5
initrd /boot/initrd
boot
You have to change sda5 & (hd0,4) to match your proposed Suse root partition.
Reference: HowTo Multiboot openSUSE from Ubuntu using the GRUB bootloader (works for Mandriva too)
Similarly you can run it the other way, with an entry in openSUSE’s loader to boot Mandriva. Let me know if you want the code.
HI guys, thanks for the replies. As for the data the installer wants to know: a) Do you want the bootloader to be placed in the mbr (this can be enabled). b) Do you want to boot from this partition (or something along these lines) Also this can be enabled. Both seem rather obvious to me and it buggers me that this isn’t done “automagically” and therefore I have the suspicion it maybe should be left alone and disabled.
If you want to add an entry to mandriva’s boot menu to boot openSuse, select b).
If you rather want to use the openSuse bootloader and add an entry for Mandriva to it, select a).
Thanks, will give it a try.