Hi
I am new to SUSE & what with a free DVD with LXF mag thought I’d give it a spin.
I partitioned everything correctly with GParted & installed SUSE, but whereas I had hoped to dual boot from dedicated 2nd Linux HDD, I still am only presented with Ubuntu GRUB options.
Windows XP & 7 reside on first HDD & I boot 2nd HDD with F11 pop up menu at POST. This is because 7 does not play friendly with GRUB.
I tried my best with the advanced configuration options in SUSE set up, but they don’t seem as beginner friendly as Ubuntu’s.
Any tips on installing/merging GRUB correctly on the 2nd disk’s MBR?
Show us as root
fdisk -l ( that is a lower case L not a one)
The problem may be that OpenSuse still uses old grub and Ubuntu uses grub 2.
Please read it might help
HowTo Multiboot Ubuntu from openSUSE using the GRUB bootloader
I will read your link, I set up equal partitions for “/” & “/home” for both Ubuntu & SUSE sharing swap:
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7ffd62f1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 31374 60802 236382937+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb2 1 1216 9766496 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 2432 31373 232471846+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 * 1217 2431 9759487+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb5 60315 60802 3906560 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 31374 60314 232468519+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
100 heads, 5 sectors/track, 625163 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 500 * 512 = 256000 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa10bd000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 163840 40959997+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 163841 625157 115329024 7 HPFS/NTFS
I think all was needed was:
sudo update-grub
That will do it if you can get into Ubuntu and Grub2 is controlling the boot.