openSUSE GRUB?

English Install/Boot/Login
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I’ve decided to try openSUSE on a 30GB partition that’s on my computer, but I need to know something. Does openSUSE come with GRUB Legacy or GRUB2 as it’s Master Boot?

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Yup. openSUSE do have GRUB on boot.

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I’m asking which one.

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Grub legacy .

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openSUSE doesn’t have GRUB2 yet. GRUB legacy and LILO are available for openSUSE, by default it will be GRUB but later you can install LILO from boot loader in YaST.

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Man, I was hoping for GRUB2.

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What other OS’s do you have?

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As of 11.2 there is no GRUB2. But i hope openSUSE team will port it to 11.3, which release is due in July 2010.

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I did have Debian on the partition openSUSE will be going on, but I currently use Ubuntu Studio 9.10. Debian came with GRUB Legacy and it didn’t pick up Ubuntu. If I don’t install GRUB Legacy as my Master Boot with openSUSE, would GRUB2 pick it up automatically, or would I have to do something? I would like to keep GRUB2.

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Install suse but not the bootloader
Ubuntu will pick it up when you run update-grub

Do you understand that?

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I don’t know what update-grub is, care to elaborate? I’m not the most tech proficient.

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It is a utility for grub2
run it from Ubuntu after you install Suse with grub MBR installed in the partition not on the Disk MBR

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What’s GRUB MBR and which partition?

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When you come here asking question like you know about grub2 we kind of assume you know the basics.

sudo update-grub

following a suse install should pick up the suse install.

Here is how to not install the suse grub

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I’m not that slow. After saying that, I’m going to ask another stupid question to be sure. I do click the box that says Boot from Master Boot Record, correct?

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No…

:wink:

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I hope not! I would miss the “partnew” feature in legacy Grub, which has been removed in Grub2. >:(
It allows you to rewrite the partition table before booting. It’s very convenient for me (Linux + multi Unix sharing each others slices in different disklabels = more than 4 primary partitions needed ). If ever my voice would count, I would say NO to that idea.

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Thank you for showing me how to say NO in more than 10 characters. I’ve been wondering lately. :wink:

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You can do it like this

No .