Hi
Is it possible to add Windows 8 to grub menu options??
thanks
Have not tried it, but it seem most likely.
All we need to know is where it’s installed
Or you could use this
updategrub for openSUSE Legacy Grub (not update-grub!)
That looks new. I could add it to updategrub if you don’t mind posting the output of:
sudo os-prober
This command will be available after you install updategrub. However the version of os-prober installed alongside with updategrub is too old to know about Windows 8 (I don’t know what it is either). I’ll have to update os-prober. Notice that os-prober is also available in factory now (nothing to do with my version, which was ported from ArchLinux … unless they took this one too. ;))
It is certainly possible to add Windows 8 to Grub menu - whether updategrub finds it or not. If nothing helps, you can always edit the Grub menu manually.
I created a partition, sda9 for Windows 8 then I installed it. Windows 7 and 8 were working after the installation. Then I restored Grub and added this code to grub.
title Windows 8 Developer Preview
rootnoverify (hd0,9)
chainloader +1
And now I can’t boot Windows 8.
partition, sda9 … (hd0,9)
(hd0,8)
why does this message have to be at least 10 chars long?
> why does this message have to be at least 10 chars long?
because that is the way the web interface (vBulletin) is set up…
now, why vBulletin is set up that way for the openSUSE forum, you
would need to ask in the correct forum, http://tinyurl.com/5ta27yb
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
For securtity reasons…spammers etc.
I fail to understand how you installed Windows. According to your post, it looks like you installed it in a logical partition and chainload the bootsector of this partition in Grub. This is rather unusual … or would be new. (?)
Did you boot from some Windows installation media and were you able to install it in a logical partition? That would be a great innovation in Windows 8. But since I doubt it, I believe that it’s not going to work.
As the others said, if the partition is sda9, the Grub notation should be (hd0,8) … but you can’t have Windows (at least the system partition or more exactly the bootloader) in this partition. Though it’s possible to have Windows in a logical partition, the Windows bootloader has to be in a primary partition … or Windows set up GPT partitions but in that case, how are you booting Legacy Grub?
And what about
su -l
LC_ALL=C fdisk -l
?
This is unusual and I agree with the comments already made by p_t_a
I remember working on a trail (myself and @swerdna) installing windows to a logical. It does work, but as already said, you must have a primary (windows partition) for the windows boot code, which you probably do have.
Again, sda9 is (hd0,8)
Ok, I changed to (hd0,0) and now I have everything working.
Here’s how a did Windows 8 installation. I already had Windows 7 and opensuse installed on my computer, so I just created a new logical partition for Windows 8 and installed it, after windows 8 installation grub was gone and had a dual-boot menu for Windows7 and Windows8. I then restored grub with opensuse livecd and I added (hd0,0) to menu.lst
/dev/sda1 2048 23179263 11588608 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 23179264 23384063 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 23384064 526512127 251564032 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 * 526512128 976771071 225129472 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 526514176 879187967 176336896 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 920150016 924344319 2097152 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 924346368 955787263 15720448 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 955789312 976752639 10481664 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 879190016 920147967 20478976 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sda1 - System Reserved
sda2 - Recovery Partition
sda3 - Windows 7
sda4 - Extended Partition
sda5 - Logical Partition NTFS
sda6 - Swap
sda7 - Root
sda8 - Home
sda9 - Windows 8