windows 7 + opensuse 11 on the same hd

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#1

Hi, i’d installed first suse 11 and after windows 7 on another partition, but when i start up the computer only windows 7 begin.

What i’ve to do?

Thank you very much at all

#2

Windows thinks it is th only OS in the Universe. In general it is best to install Windows first then Linux. But this can be fixed. please read here.

HowTo Boot into openSUSE when it won’t Boot from the Grub Code on the Hard Drive

#3

may depend if you let win7 wipe everything away. Do you see the partitions in windows disk manager? if it suse is still there this is an easy fix

Re-Install Grub Quickly with Parted Magic

#4 
Windows thinks it is th only OS in the Universe. In general it is best to install Windows first then Linux. But this can be fixed. please read here.

HowTo Boot into openSUSE when it won't Boot from the Grub Code on the Hard Drive

I try this option
↑↑↑↑Reinstall Grub in the Master Boot Record and link it to the existing Grub menu in openSUSE

but the system require a Rescue login: what is this?

#5

I found that the rescue login is root and the following go

First find the openSUSE installation:

You enter this ---------------- grub
Computer returns like this ---- grub>
You enter this ---------------- find /boot/grub/menu.lst
Computer returns like this ---- (hd1,6)

Here, (hd1,6) is Grub’s pointer to my openSUSE installation on drive number 2, partition number 7. Your pointer will be different from my example (hd1,6). Substitute your correct values for my example (hd1,6). Now that you have your pointer, proceed like this:

You enter this ---------------- root (hd1,6)
Computer returns like this ---- Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
You enter this ---------------- setup (hd0)
You see 4-5 lines like this — Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists … yes
Computer finally returns this-- Succeeded…Done
You enter this ---------------- quit
You enter this ---------------- reboot

The computer should reboot and present you with the Grub boot menu, from which you can boot into openSUSE.

but the grub not appear :’(

#6

So you have 2 HD’s
Perhaps you should confirm their boot order in the BIOS

If you get Parted Magic you could get us the result of
fdisk -l
(that’s a lower case L)
and you could even read the menu.lst file and post it here so we can see how SUSE was installed.

#7

No i have just one, that posted above is the example from here ↑↑↑↑Reinstall Grub in the Master Boot Record and link it to the existing Grub menu in openSUSE.

typing ----------- find /boot/grub/menu.lst
Computer -------- (hd0,1)

#8

So when you do: find /boot/grub/menu.lst

what does it report?

#9

this (hd0,1)

#10

So for you it should go like this:

You enter this ---------------- grub
Computer returns like this ---- grub>
You enter this ---------------- find /boot/grub/menu.lst
Computer returns like this ---- (hd0,1)

You enter this ---------------- root (hd0,1)
Computer returns like this ---- Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
You enter this ---------------- setup (hd0)
You see 4-5 lines like this — Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists … yes
Computer finally returns this-- Succeeded…Done
You enter this ---------------- quit
You enter this ---------------- reboot

I should also add that Vista will not be in the grub menu, we will have to add it later. But we need to see fdisk -l

#11

You enter this ---------------- grub
Computer returns like this ---- grub>
You enter this ---------------- find /boot/grub/menu.lst
Computer returns like this ---- (hd0,1)

You enter this ---------------- root (hd0,1)
Computer returns like this ---- Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
You enter this ---------------- setup (hd0)
You see 4-5 lines like this — Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists … yes
Computer finally returns this-- Succeeded…Done
You enter this ---------------- quit
You enter this ---------------- reboot

This worked fine… After i edited the menu.lst file with joe (someone can tell me why suse “cannot open display” with gedit ???), inserting the following

title Win…
rootnoverify (hd0, number of partition where win is installed)
makeactive
chainloader +1

and finally the cirle was closed.

Thank you at all :wink:

#12

You must be root to edit or even view that file. The file’s permissions are set to only allow root access.
From CL

gnomesudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

would work or is KDE

kdesudo kedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

or use the superuser mode version of the browser to navigate and open.

#13

Actually in SUSE you will probably need to do either

gnomesu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

or

kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst