[Novalug] OpenSuse 10.3 dual boot problems

George Stone geostone1@verizon.net
Thu Nov 8 19:21:01 EST 2007


william oakes wrote:
> On Sunday 04 November 2007 19:59, George Stone wrote:
>   
>> Hi, all!
>>
>> I've upgraded to OpenSuse 10.3 and am having trouble with Grub allowing me
>> to boot "that other OS".
>>
>> I've got two HDDs.  HDA has Vista (HDA1) and Grub (HDA2).  HDB has Open
>> Suse 10.3.
>>
>> Here's what my Grub menu looks like:
>>
>> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Nov  4 19:43:10 EST 2007
>> default 0
>> timeout 8
>> gfxmenu (hd1,6)/boot/message
>>
>> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
>> title openSUSE 10.3
>>     root (hd1,6)
>>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
>> root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP1213C0694J1FX306063-part7
>> resume=/dev/sdb1 splash=silent showopts initrd
>> /boot/initrd-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
>>
>> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:  openSUSE
>> 10.2 (/dev/sdb5)### title openSUSE 10.2 (/dev/sdb5)
>>     rootnoverify (hd1,6)
>>     chainloader (hd1,4)+1
>>
>> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:  openSUSE
>> 10.3 (/dev/sdb6)### title openSUSE 10.3 (/dev/sdb6)
>>     rootnoverify (hd1,6)
>>     chainloader (hd1,5)+1
>>
>> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
>> title Windows
>>     rootnoverify (hd1,6)
>>     chainloader (hd0,0)+1
>>
>>     
> <snip>
>   
>> Any ideas to resolve this would be most appreciated!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> George Stone
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>>     
>
> George,
>
> I had the same problem. Fixed it with mapping. I'm running openSuse 10.3 on 
> individual SATA HD and XPPro on another separate drive.
>
> my windows section of the GRUB Menu looks like this:
>
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1###
> title windows xp
>     map (hd0) (hd1)
>     map (hd1) (hd0)
>     root (hd1,0)
>     makeactive
>     chainloader +1
>
> it works just fine.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards, Bill...
>   
Bill -- thanks for the info!



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