OK so I made a bit of a boo-boo. I dual (triple?) boot openSUSE with Ubuntu (and Windows 7), and installed openSUSE last, onto this new 1Tb hard drive. The boo-boo I made was when installing openSUSE I elected to install GRUB also, which has proved to be a bit of a mistake.
What I would like to do is safely remove the openSUSE GRUB packages, so I can leave Ubuntu in control of the GRUB menu. What’s happening at the moment is whenever openSUSE has an update to GRUB it reinstalls it, leaving me having to go into Ubuntu and use the Boot-Repair tool to reinstate the Ubuntu GRUB menu. This has been happening rather frequently of late too.
Which packages can I safely remove to allow this to happen? Can it even be done? I didn’t want to trawl into YasT and remove all the GRUB packages without checking with you guys first. Many thanks.
On 2013-07-28 14:26, Kinzie wrote:
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> OK so I made a bit of a boo-boo. I dual (triple?) boot openSUSE with
> Ubuntu (and Windows 7), and installed openSUSE last, onto this new 1Tb
> hard drive. The boo-boo I made was when installing openSUSE I elected to
> install GRUB also, which has proved to be a bit of a mistake.
>
> What I would like to do is safely remove the openSUSE GRUB packages, so
> I can leave Ubuntu in control of the GRUB menu. What’s happening at the
> moment is whenever openSUSE has an update to GRUB it reinstalls it,
> leaving me having to go into Ubuntu and use the Boot-Repair tool to
> reinstate the Ubuntu GRUB menu. This has been happening rather
> frequently of late too.
That is not so simple to do.
What you have to do instead, is using YaST, configure openSUSE grub to
be installed at its root partition, and tick off the write default MBR.
Once done, you can then use ubuntu grub to boot openSUSE, or chainload
openSUSE grub.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Ah I see. Thanks for your reply. I think I’ll not fuss then for this release, and just be more mindful when I install the next openSUSE release in November. I should have taken better note when I installed it, especially so as the default option offered by openSUSE at installation is the configuration you outline above. I guess old MBR habits die hard.
