:\My machine has two hard disks, disk 0 has 2 partitions the first being “windows xp” – disk 1 has a primary partition and an extended partition with OpenSuse 10.3 installed on the extended partition. I dual boot via grub off of disk 0 MBR. I have a third disk which I wish to install OpenSuse 11.1 My machine sees the new disk as SATA 3 However, suse sees SATA 3 as sdb and SATA 1 as sda and SATA 2 as sdc – this is very confusing to say the least. I don’t want to lose any of my present setup as Suse 10.3 is running perfectly. When I attempt to load 11.1 on the new disk it wants to place its SWAP on OpenSuse 10.3’s Swap partition and it’s remaining partitions on sdb. Question: Will this cause problems with Opensuse 10.3 when I choose to run it? Question: will the new grub file present me with a way to Boot either, Windows, suse 10.3 or 11.1—Or will my systems be trashed in some way.
There is no problem using the same swap partition for two distros.
The installer should include all three systems in menu.lst but, if you keep a copy of your existing menu.lst, you should be able to edit the new one from that if something goes wrong.
Note that GRUB uses its own, different way, of identifying drives.
Thanks for the response, I figured as much. I think I’ve got the disc id’s figured out, if you get a feel of how it is going to react then you can type in the proper mount points etc. once again thanks for the input
RJone