Opensuse and Mint 12 dual boot

English Install/Boot/Login
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I just installed opensuse 11.1 after Mint 12. I found this link showing how to edit the boot menu, but no luck.
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/445037-dual-boot-opensuse-11-3-mint-linux.html

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xeb66eb66

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1046 8393962 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 11238 14594 26957825 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 1046 1185 1116487 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 * 1185 1708 4200997+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 14387 14594 1659904 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 11238 14387 25297920 83 Linux

Mint is in sda6, Suse sda4.

I ran the code “gnomesu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst”

added:
#Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: none#
title Mint
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img

and changed sda3 to sda4. I even tried changing the hd0,2 to hd01 and hd03 but nothing.

ideas??

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If Mint is sda6 then you want

#Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: none#
title Mint
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img

3

YES! problem solved. Could you explain briefly what the hd0,5 and all mean?

4

hd0 is the first disk
5 is the 6th partition

Numbering starts at 0.

5

oh, okay, thank you

6

Is it just me who finds the order of those partitions confusing ?

I did a double take when I read that.

It appears that /dev/sda1 is some unknown Iinux partition (from 1 to 1046) and /dev/sda3 is primary partition for openSUSE swap (from 1046 to 1185) and /dev/sda4 is a primary partition marked active for openSUSE root (from 1185 to 1708)

and
/dev/sda2 (from 11238 to 14594) is an extended containing /dev/sda6 for mint root (from 11238 to 14387) and /dev/sda5 is a swap for mint (from 14387 to 14595).

Am I the only one to see a gap from 1708 to 11238 ? And the swap for mint (sda5) goes to 14595, one block past the extended at 14594.

Strange (to me)

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/dev/sda1               1        1046     8393962   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            1046        1185     1116487   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4   *        1185        1708     4200997+  83  Linux
Massive Gap
/dev/sda2           11238       14594    26957825    5  Extended
/dev/sda6           11238       14387    25297920   83  Linux
/dev/sda5           14387       14594     1659904   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Is totally bizarre
I agree
But who is even going to start to undo that mess?!

8

Ok this last bit was a typo on my side. The rest is bizarre thou. If someone asked me to create that structure, I don’t know that I could.