Hi, I just installed openSuse11.3 on my desktop, but when I switch on my pc, windows starts aumatically. I can run openSuse only if I insert installation cd, select BOOT FORM HARD DISK and then Grub appears…
PS: I have a problem also with screen resolution, I installed nVidia drivers, but the maximum resolution is 1024X768…
So, do you have more than one hard drive? Where did you load Grub? Is it in the Master Boot Record or in the openSUSE partition? Did you mark the openSUSE partition active for booting? So many questions and so few answers. It would be helpful to boot up openSUSE using your CD and then getting some information about your setup. Open up a terminal session and then type the following commands:
su -
password:
fdisk -l
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
cat /boot/grub/device.map
cat /etc/fstab
Copy and paste each item into a code window using the advance message editor. Highlight each block of text in the message and press the code (#) function to enclose it as code, which prevents it from being reformatted and allows long text to be placed in your message.
This information will be helpful in determining what to do next.
Thank You,
Thanks for your help…The commands output is:
linux-9fms:~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x33e633e6
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 16971 136311525 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 16971 30515 108800181 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 16971 19581 20972794+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 19582 30253 85722808+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 30254 30515 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x33e633e5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 30515 245111706 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 82.0 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00072351
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 9964 80035798+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
linux-9fms:~ # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on dom set 26 23:23:03 CEST 2010
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader
default 1
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,4)/boot/message
##YaST - activate
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2###
title Windows XP
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.3
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-0.3-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L250S0_L59KHR2G-part5 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L250S0_L59KHR2G-part7 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x31a
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34.7-0.3-desktop
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.3
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-0.3-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L250S0_L59KHR2G-part5 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x31a
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34.7-0.3-desktop
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1###
title windows 1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 3###
title windows 3
map (hd2) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd2)
rootnoverify (hd2,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Dischetto
rootnoverify (fd0)
chainloader +1
linux-9fms:~ # cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd2) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L250S0_L59LZ1YG
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L080L0_L21JS91H
(hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L250S0_L59KHR2G
linux-9fms:~ # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L250S0_L59KHR2G-part7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L250S0_L59KHR2G-part5 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L250S0_L59KHR2G-part6 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L080L0_L21JS91H-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=it_IT.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L250S0_L59KHR2G-part1 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=it_IT.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6L250S0_L59LZ1YG-part1 /windows/E ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=it_IT.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
You have three hard drives and I assume that /dev/sda is set as your boot drive. I can see that dev sda1 is the bootable partition and it is the Windows partition. Since the Windows partition is booting automatically, then Grub was not loaded into the Master Boot Record.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 16971 136311525 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 16971 30515 108800181 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 16971 19581 20972794+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 19582 30253 85722808+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 30254 30515 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I suggest you consider downloading the GParted boot disk to fix the grub issue. Location of the GParted Disk:
I am thinking you could download the GParted Boot disk and then Check out the following detail on what to do next.
Re-Install Grub Quickly with Parted Magic
Do this to reinstall the grub boot loader onto the disk. I found a really good article on grub located here:
GRUB bootloader - Full tutorial
Now I must tell you, that unless you really want to save this setup, I would suggest a different partition setup. To do so though will require going into a manual partitioning mode to setup. Here is what I would suggest you do:
This is how I woulds set it up, but openSUSE will likely not suggest this by default. Depending on what you do, we can suggest several things to reduce the size of your grub menu.lst, but not until you decide the direction you are going.
Thank You,