I’ve been running a Suse 11.2 and ubuntu 9.04 on an internal HDD in separate partitions for about 6 months on an Acer aspire with 756 meg ram. I installed Suse first then Ubuntu as I couldn’t work out how to alter the partitions and keep Ubuntu when installing Suse first.
Yesterday when I tried to boot Suse I got the message Error 15 no file found. I went into boot edit for and Suse this is what I found.
Id like to be able to fix this so I don’t lose either OS as I use them both for different things and until I learn all about Suse and can make a live cd of OS, I really love it but am not prepared to dump ubuntu. I’ve put a lot of time into both and don’t want to start again. I’ve got a Suse studio account and really want to create my own dedicated Video/audio KDE Suse.
I’m new to dealing with grub and the terminal other than cut and paste, so may be a bit dim until I can understand them.
Thanks, I’ve trawled the threads and downloaded super grub. It allowed me to boot Suse which I’m using now, but hasn’t fixed the problem as I still get the error message 15 when choosing Suse.
I’ll try sudo - update-grub, I think I’ve already tried that but will try again in Ubuntu. If it doesn’t work, now I can get into Suse is there a way to fix ther problem from inside Suse easier, or will it be somewhere in the forums.
I’m determined to get this to work instead of just reloading everything. I’ve been content to just use linux OS rather than learn about them, so I hope to get a grasp of Suse but starting really late in life to do it and slow at picking up the jargon and methodology.
I had hoped to fix this through OpenSuse, however I’ve found no help nor advice which has worked. So I did it through ubuntu9.04 and ungraded grub to grub2, a much better and easy to work with grub.
=stormbay;2102747]I’ve been running a Suse 11.2 and ubuntu 9.04 on an internal HDD in separate partitions for about 6 months on an Acer aspire with 756 meg ram. I installed Suse first then Ubuntu as I couldn’t work out how to alter the partitions and keep Ubuntu when installing Suse first.
Yesterday when I tried to boot Suse I got the message Error 15 no file found. I went into boot edit for and Suse this is what I found.
Kernel (hd0,*)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-s
The * is the partion that your oSuse is on 0 being the first
nitrd /boot/initro.2.6.31.5-0.1-default
initrd (hd0,*)/boot/initrd-2.6.31.5-0.1-default
your typing must be accurate
Id like to be able to fix this so I don’t lose either OS as I use them both for different things and until I learn all about Suse and can make a live cd of OS, I really love it but am not prepared to dump ubuntu. I’ve put a lot of time into both and don’t want to start again. I’ve got a Suse studio account and really want to create my own dedicated Video/audio KDE Suse.
I’m new to dealing with grub and the terminal other than cut and paste, so may be a bit dim until I can understand them.
Thanks.
once you boot into openSuse correct your boot loader with bootloader “propose new configuration” usually works or check back
Thanks, but I fixed it with grub2 in Ubuntu. I’m getting really disappointed with opensuse, this is my third go at it over the last few years and each time it gets better but I still find Ubuntu and others 100 of times easy to use and get around in. With such great quality and potential, it’s a pity opensuse is so complicated and disjointed in its presentation to the average user.
Ubuntu 9.04 doesn’t use grub2 – pursuing that line was a mistake.
The problem was originally caused by a kernel update in openSUSE. After that the Ubu bootloader was searching for a file that had changed in openSUSE, so you got the error “file not found”. The correct fix (for other readers who see this thread) is located here: HowTo Multiboot openSUSE from Ubuntu using the GRUB bootloader
True, Ubuntu does not use GRUB 2 until 9.10. And frankly I do not like GRUB 2 as it takes away a lot of control from from as compared to GRUB. On ease of use surely you are correct that Ubuntu is easier but its got its irritations for those who like to mess with their systems setting up things. Infact I last use SUSE with SLED 10 then I went to Ubuntu but when 9.10 arrived and found myself incapapable of even connection to the net I had to return to SUSE and am now using openSUSE 11.2 KDE4.3.1 and finally I can control everything and things work as expected. No more breaking of stuff. So each systems works for the intended audience most times. No OS is trouble free.
Oh the other thing I could never figure out was that after Ubuntu 8.10 I could never log in to my bank account or facebook page in Ubuntu and Fedora not even with konquorer. But with openSUSE it worked a while back and in my return all these sites are still working perfectly. I am not saying that everyone had this problem but I did.
I installed grub2 and it has given me back my boot loader. I really like KDE and openSuse, but trying to do simple things like make a live ISO of the OS is a pain in the arse. Presently I’m trying the new beta Mint KDE and one of the main reasons why I only use linux, your choices are unlimited.
I just wish openSUse was not so complicate when to comes to changing the system, I really hate the update which seem to take over at times and then locks the system and I’m not a technical person who can just work in the terminal.