I installed openSUSE alongside Windows yesterday using the default settings. I had the installer automatically shrink my windows partition and create one for openSUSE. When I boot my computer now, the openSUSE bootloader shows up with options to boot into openSUSE, failsafe openSUSE, windows1, windows2, or windows3. Windows1 and windows2 appear to be the same thing - they both boot into windows, they read the same info for the hard drive, they have access to all the same files. Windows3 cannot start and says that the BOOTMNGR is missing.
What are these three different windows options, why are two the same, and why doesn’t one work? I’m confused :eek:
Hello laplacian13, the installer seems to become confused when there are several NTFS partitions to be found. I guess I do not understand why there would be two that do the very same thing. If you want us to help figure it out for you, we would need some added data. I can say that the third Windows option sounds safe to remove from your grub menu.lst. You can make such changes from YaST:
YaST (Enter root password) / System / Boot Loader then Highlight Windows3, Press the Delete Button on the bottom left and then OK on the Bottom right. Look through the setup here as you can rename entries, change the default and so on.
Next, I might request you open up a terminal session and run these thyree commands and then post the output into a message here for us to see:
su -
password:
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
<your menu.lst shows up here>
fdisk -l
There is a real neat script file called findgrub whose output can be real helpful. http://www.unixversal.com/linux/openSUSE/findgrub-3.4.1.tgz
I would extract the file and then copy it to your local home area bin folder (/home/yourname/bin). Open up a terminal session and just type in:
findgrub
It is helpful to copy the text into a message here using the advance editor mode, select the text you just copied and press the code (#) button and it is not formatted and looks like what I just posted above, but larger.
Thank You,