Hi,
Hope someone here can help me sort this out.
To the problem. I’ve had dual boot Win7 and OpenSUSE set up a while ago, and everything was working fine, but recently I’ve got my hands upon SSD,
so I’ve installed it as primary HDD and installed Win7 On it. Now I want to restore my OpenSUSE install, I think I could just install Grub in MBR, but I’m not familiar with all the settings and a bit
afraid to do anything, I do not want to lose my Windows set up while doing that.
If someone please could walk me through this, or give me steps what needs to be done or researched, that’d be great.
To help I’ve made a Windows Disk Management screenshot with all partitions.
All OpenSUSE partitions are on Disk0, along with old installation of Win7, Data store partition and Asus ExpressGate partition.
On Disk1 there’s my Win7 C drive, with 100 MB reserved partition (Win7 did that I suppose).
Other disks are not relevant, but:
Disk2 Purely Data disk.
Disk3 - RAM drive
Disk4 - Flash drive was plugged in while taking screenshot.
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/6522/parions.jpg
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/6522/parions.jpg
Thank you.
Well, I am not sure what you intend on doing with the old Win7 install, but if you set the old hard drive back as the boot drive, all you need to do is to change the grub menu startup to get it to run the new SSD win7 drive. You would most likely end up with something like this:
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1###
title Windows 7 Ultimate
savedefault 1
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
You will need to edit the device.map and insert the new SSD drive as HD1 while the old HD0 remains the same. To edit these files from KDE use the command:
kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/device.map
kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab
Switch your boot drive back to the old drive from your BIOS setup and post the output from these three files and we can help. It would also be helpful to mount the new SSD in openSUSE using the YaST / System / Partitioner to something like newwin7 or some such thing. Just elect to edit the new partition, select a mount point and don’t format (which is the default). Then post the output from your fstab file and the info can help create the device.map file.
Thank You,
I concur with James’ comments
Setting the old HD as boot device
Boot to SUSE and add a entry to the new HD install
Thank you James for this suggestion.
I’ve managed to update grub entry as per your example and map hd1 to SSD, now I have “almost” working OpenSUSE, and my Windows boots from SSD just fine.
“Almost” because after updates my X11 broke and I’m still figuring out heads and tails, but this is for another thread.
One thing I haven’t tried yet is mounting SSD partition, but I guess it shouldn’t be a problem.
Thank you again,
It’s very nice to have good community backing you up 
Thank you James for this suggestion.
I’ve managed to update grub entry as per your example and map hd1 to SSD, now I have “almost” working OpenSUSE, and my Windows boots from SSD just fine.
“Almost” because after updates my X11 broke and I’m still figuring out heads and tails, but this is for another thread.
One thing I haven’t tried yet is mounting SSD partition, but I guess it shouldn’t be a problem.
Thank you again,
It’s very nice to have good community backing you up 
I guess its the go forward two steps and come back one step thing. I was happy to help and good luck with your next issue.
Thank You,
Just an update, managed to fix X11 to usable,
had to rebuild ATI drivers and reinstall X window system,
also had to clean up kde4/share/config/kwin*rc files.
Now I’m one happy OpenSUSE user.
Thanks again
ugnius40 Just an update, managed to fix X11 to usable,
had to rebuild ATI drivers and reinstall X window system,
also had to clean up kde4/share/config/kwin*rc files.
Now I’m one happy OpenSUSE user.
Thanks again
Well that is really good news to hear. As an AMD/ATI graphics user, you must look at please_try_again’s script used to load the AMD proprietary video driver automatically. Don’t forget to read to the end of the thread.
Upgrading ATI driver with atiupgrade
Thank You,
