Ubuntu :: Dual Booting With OpenSUSE Through Grub2?
Aug 23, 2010Is it possible to dual boot openSUSE & Ubuntu through GRUB 2? Apparently SUSE uses standard GRUB. I installed SUSE but only have Ubuntu options displayed on boot.
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Fedora :: Dual Booting - Grub2 To See F15 Or Be Installed Using Grub2?
Jul 11, 2011I installed Fedora 15, which was my first real departure from Debian based Linux OSs. I absolutely love the new Gnome 3, and was able to configure F15 to work as I wanted it to. On rebooting I realized that there was no boot loader screen, that F15 just booted and didn't give me a choice as to which OS I wanted to use. Eventually I was able to configure grub to let me see the boot loader and added my old boot loader as a choice. This worked well, maybe not a perfect solution, but it worked. This weekend I installed LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) to another HDD. LMDE uses grub2 and after the install F15 was not recognized.
Two questions: Is there a way for grub2 to see F15? or Can F15 be installed using grub2? I really don't mind re-installing from scratch.
Ubuntu Installation :: Dual Booting Windows Without Having To Use GRUB2?
Jun 13, 2010The Problem, installing ubuntu over top of windows and vice versa causes the windows boot menu to forget about ubuntu.The Solution:1. Using bcdedit from within windows to edit the boot menuClick Start -> Type Cmd.exe run it in elevated mode (as an administrator) by right clicking it and selecting "Run As Administrator" Inside the console type bcdedit, notice that the ubuntu boot entry is still there, for example i use three o/s , windows 7 professional x64, windows 7 ultimate x64 and Kubuntu and it looks like this
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
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Ubuntu :: Remove GRUB2 No Longer Dual Booting?
Aug 7, 2010I was dual booting on my netbook with Lucid and Windows XP, so the computer starts with the GRUB2 menu. I deleted the windows partition and now I only use Lucid on the netbook. I want to know how can I get the computer to simply boot into Ubuntu like a normal computer would do if it was not set up as a dual boot system?
How can I get the computer to go directly into the ONLY operating system rather than taking a detour through the GRUB menu?
Ubuntu Security :: Dual Booting With Truecrypt 6.3a Chainloading Grub2
Jan 4, 2010I'm having problems getting TC to load grub2 1.97b4. When I hit ESC from the TC boot prompt, I get "no bootable partitions found".
I also booted into Ubuntu Live cd, mounted my LVM dm-crypted volume and tried to reinstall grub2 to my nonencrypted /boot under /dev/sda3 and TC still wont boot. Then I set the boot flag on /dev/sda3 and it still won't boot.
These are the commands I used to install grub2 to my /boot partition. Atleast that's what I think it did.
update-grub
grub-install /dev/sda3
grub-install --recheck /dev/sda3
Ubuntu Installation :: GeeXboX With 9.10 - Dual Booting And Editing Grub2?
Feb 8, 20109.10 uses GRUB2, so the instructions below are obsolete. Is there anyone here who could provide instructions for adding Geexbox into the GRUB2 menu? If you already have a Linux OS installed on your system, you might just want to add a GeeXboX entry to your existing bootloader. This allow you to install GeeXboX very easily. From GeeXboX CD, simply copy the GEEXBOX folder into your Linux / partition (we suppose it to be /dev/sda1 here).
Modify the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to add:
title GeeXboX
root (hd0,1)
kernel /GEEXBOX/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 rw rdinit=linuxrc boot=UUID=$my_uuid lang=en keymap=qwerty splash ...
initrd /GEEXBOX/boot/initrd.gz
quiet
Just take are about two things:
- the field root (hd0,1) is to be adapted according to the rest of your GRUB's configuration.
- the $my_uuid value is the unique ID of your partition. Check within your GRUB config file, which value is set for other OS on the same partition or use ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ to see which uuid matches your partition.
OpenSUSE Install :: Dual Boot With Grub2 - Only Screen Shut Down
Mar 1, 2010I'm using opensuse 11.2 and a week or so ago it suddenly stopped shutting down the computer, or rebooting. It shuts the screen down and that seems to be it, so I have ti switch it off. However a day or so later it began to reboot when asked, but still won't shut down. I'm dual booting it with Unbuntu 9.04 using grub2, but it's been that way for many months without problems.
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May 6, 2010Just sucessfully installed a sual boot with 11.2/ubuntu 10.4. 11.2 was installed first, than ubuntu. ubuntu recognizes and displays 11.2 on its bootloader, 1..2 does ot show ubuntu on its boot menu. so this mean I have to edit menu.lst and physically add the menu entry (root, load the kenel, and load initrd)....correct?
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Apr 3, 2011I would like to install OpenSUSE 11.4 on the same hard drive where Ubuntu 10.10 resides. I have plenty of free space following the Ubuntu partitions to do this.
I typically create three partitions: a root (/) mounted partition, a swap partition, and a home (/home) mounted partition.
I have these questions:
Is it advisable to load two Linux OS's on the same drive or would this be problematic?
If advisable, then: Can I use the same swap partition for both Ubuntu and OpenSUSE (as I plan to run only one OS at a given time)?
How will this effect booting (as Ubuntu uses GRUB2 while OpenSUSE uses GRUB)? Will the GRUB OS selection menu successfully display the two OS's for selection? If not, can I fix the problem through GRUB commands?
I am keeping Windows 7 completely separate with its own boot block. I do this by turning off appropriate hard drives during installations. Thereafter, I use F12 when prompted during boot-up to select the Linux (default) or Windows boot drive. When I boot through the Linux hard drive, I would like the Ubuntu or OpenSUSE Linux OS to be selectable through GRUB (or GRUB2).
OpenSUSE Install :: Vista / Opensuse Dual-booting With GRUB
Jan 22, 2011I installed Opensuse 11.3 on a separate partition to vista on my Acer 5115. It runs fine but the GRUB boot loader failed to show the Vista OS. I tried to add it by editing menu.As far as I can see (and I don't have much experience with these things) the Vista OS is there, on sda5, but doesn't boot correctly because the winload.exe is in the wrong directory. Why the sdax numbers are all rearranged is a mystery too, but I have reinstalled vista several times so that could be why.I don't have a vista recovery cd (wasn't given one), is there any way to fix this within opensuse (which works fine)?
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Dec 22, 2010I have a 2008 white MacBook.Dual booting Mac OS X and 11.3?
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Feb 26, 2011I was trying to install a dual boot with OS X and this is what it told me:
"delete partition /dev/sda1"
As far as I can tell, this means it wants to delete OS X. On my mac's terminal, the linux partition is "disk0s3". Am I correct to assume that I should be custom partitioning in the OpenSUSE installer and have it create all its partitions out of sda3 only?
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May 2, 2010I found this tutorial about dual booting Suse 11.0 & XP. Is it suitable also for Suse 11.1 & win7, or should I find another tutorial? Can you recommend a good tutorial for dual-booting Suse 11.1 & Win7 ? I've searched a lot but didn't find any.
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Feb 28, 2011My PC is an older model Toshiba Satellite that I've upgraded a bit to handle Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
Recently, I joined a CST program at a local college, and there is an entire mod on Linux. I'm at the top of my class, and I aim to stay that way, so I found out what distro they were using, and downloaded openSUSE 11.3. I tried to install it once, and I failed, though I didn't screw up my Windows...much.
I've created an entire 132GB partition, and a 3 or 4GB swap, but I keep getting an error about the boot loader not being on a partition entirely below 128GB. So, I set the partition for 127.98GB, and still with the error.
I'm no slacker when it comes to working with Windows, but when it comes to Linux, of any type, I'm horrible. I need to be able to install the fully functional openSUSE OS alongside my Windows 7 Ultimate, without completely screwing my Windows install up. I can recover, so I'm not afraid to try new things.
Ubuntu Installation :: Dual-booting OpenSUSE And Kubuntu / Set Up Bootloader?
Jun 9, 2011In addition to my pre-existing installation of openSUSE 11.4 I installed Kubuntu 11.04 to my machine. Surprisingly enough the SUSE Grub was not overwritten and I can still boot SUSE fine. I cannot, however, get Kubuntu to boot; tried to set up a chainloader entry in the SUSE Grub, but that doesnt seem to find valid boot files and errors out stating Invalid or corrupt executable format.
As far as I can see, both openSUSE and Kubuntu see my hard drives in the following order:
sda: 500 GB Samsung on SATA (no OS installed)
sdb: 120 GB WD on IDE Master (Kubuntu installed to 1st partition (sdb1)
sdc: 160 GB Samsung on IDE Slave (openSUSE installed to 1st partition (sdc1)
During installation Kubuntu (alternate CD) installed Grub2 to (hd0,0), which should be what is called sda above.
OpenSUSE Install :: Dual Booting 11.3&lucid Lynx?
Aug 2, 2010I want to try OpenSUSE but don't want to get rid of Ubuntu yet. How can I install it so I will be able to dual boot? I have an empty partition of ~150GB ready for it.When I am installing OpenSUSE 11.3 I get this content in the boot section:
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The bootloader is installed on a partition that does not lie entirely below 128 GB. The system might not boot.
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OpenSUSE Install :: Dual-Booting 11.3 64bit With Windows 7
Sep 8, 2010I am currently running windows 7, i would like to be able to dual-boot with openSuse 11.3 64-bit, at the moment I have two seperate partitions each 111gb in size and i wish to install suse onto the D: partition without effecting my windows installation or any data on the c drive.
When i got to the "Discs" stage of the installation i was very confused by this as i am completely new to Linux and dual-booting, i thought it would be a simple case of selecting my d: drive and installing straight to that but i cannot work out how to do this.
OpenSUSE Install :: How To Create Dual-Booting System
Sep 20, 2010I currently have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installed on my PC. The details of how it got installed I cannot explain... I installed it on a HD that was not partitioned and I accepted all the defaults that Ubuntu suggested. So as far as I know right now Ubuntu "owns" the whole HD.
I now would like to create a dual-boot system by installing openSUSE 11.3 alongside Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. By reading things here and there, my guess is that I need to create a partition for openSUSE by shrinking the one for Ubuntu. But I am really not sure.
So I downloaded the CD version (GNOME) only of openSUSE, launched the installer and the process came to the following suggestions which is basically all Greek to me:
* Delete partition /dev/sda1
* Create root volume /dev/sda1 with ext4
* Create volume /dev/sda3 for /home with ext4
* Use /dev/sda5 as swap
As I said before, what I would like to do is install openSUSE side-by- side with Ubuntu and create a dual-boot system. I do not want to delete Ubuntu! I got scared by that "Delete partition /dev/sda1" thing mentioned above and so I aborted the installation.
What is the installer suggesting? Has it realized that I already have Ubuntu installed and that I want to create a dual-boot system?
OpenSUSE Install :: Error 17 On GRUB \ Dual Booting?
Apr 3, 2011I'm dual booting Windows 7 and openSUSE. I attempted to start up my computer, and got ERROR 17 on the GRUB loading page. I am assuming this is related to me disabling the openSUSE uninstaller on startup in Windows.installer seemed completely superfluous.
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Dec 9, 2009I'm wondering how I would go about dual-booting Ubuntu with openSUSE installed first?
I'm just a little bit concerned about the versions of Grub overwriting the openSUSE version or theme or something.
Would it work okay if I just shrink my openSUSE partition and then set the Ubuntu installer to install Ubuntu to the free space only or do I need to edit the grub file and stuff?
OpenSUSE Install :: Dual Booting Ubuntu - Won't Let Create Any New Mountpoints For / And /home
Dec 25, 2009I have an Acer Aspire One D150 with the following partition table:
I would like to free up a bit of space from the Win7 partition and install OpenSuse 11.2 KDE alongside my existing OS'es. Trouble is no matter what I do YAST wants to install OpenSuse in / and /home over the top of Ubuntu. It won't let me create any new mountpoints for / and /home. Furthermore, I've heard that even if I can successfully install OpenSuse I will face problems as Ubuntu uses Grub2 and OpenSuse still uses Grub-legacy.
Ubuntu :: Booting After Installation (Dual Booting With Vista) - Error: No Such Devide Found
Jun 24, 2010i decided to install ubuntu in my PC,i downloaded the .ISO image and i installed it in my USB. After trying it and all that i observed that i really liked it and i decided to formally install it to my computer in the hard drive. When i reached the partition thing,i selected to dual boot with Vista and select between each them in every startup,when i clicked FORWARD it gave me an error which i did not read(because,again im a noob) so i clicked cancel.
Today i wanted to go through the process again and now really install it,so again i went to the time zone part and i clicked forward but then,instead of taking me straight to the partition phase,it appeard a window saying "The installer has detected that the following disks have mounted partitions: /dev/sda ...." I clicked yes,to unmount this partitions so it took me to the partition thing,once there i selected the option to install Ubuntu with Vista and select between them i neach startup,then i clicked forward and went to the username/computer name process,once i finished i continued to the next part,the installation,but i selected to import all of my WIndows VIsta default user data,after that i clicked forward and went to the installation process,i went down stairs to eat soemthing while it finishes,i came back and it was finished,it asked me to reboot so i clicked in Restart Now.
When it tried to boot,appeared an error saying: Error: no such devide found: #################### Grub load(or something like that) grub rescue: and it was a command line,since there i havent been able to boot into vista or Ubuntu,im really scared because is the first thing related to OS installing ive done,so i booted my USB and ran the trial and right now im trying to find out what to do from that trial version.
I just went to the INSTALL UBUNTU 10.04 LTS application under the System>Administration Menu and found out that in the partition phase the Install and allow to select between both systems in eahc startup option,i dont know what to do,i foudn out that my HD has still all its data(MUsic/Videos/Folders/Programs/ect.)its just that i cannot boot from it. Also in GParted it appears as /dev/sda1/ and a warning icon besides it,also when i go into information, thers this warning there [URL]
OpenSUSE Install :: Dual Booting 11.2 And W7 While Keeping W7's Boot Manager Intact
Jun 2, 2010my Windows partition and the future Suse partition will be on different HDDs, so this should ease things a bit. Suse is on HDD 2 and Windows on HDD 1 HDD 2 will be the default Master drive, so I want GRUB to give me to option to boot either on Suse, either on Windows 7 I want to keep Windows 7 boot manager intact. I.E. If I switch HDD 1 to the Master drive, it will boot directly into Win 7.
What I wanted to do is:
Unplugg Windows drive
Install Suse
Replugg Windows drive and manually add the entry to GRUB
if I keep them both plugged, Linux will not touch HDD 1 MBR?
OpenSUSE Install :: Dual Booting On Gateway - Windows 7 Cannot Be Chosen At Boot?
May 6, 2011i've just got my gateway laptop which has a recovery option. Due to my observation, the computer has 3 primary partitions when I firstly got it: 12.7 GB, whose property is system recovery (empty and hidden); 100MB whose properties are ACTIVE, primary partition; partition C whose properties are BOOT, system, primary partition, crash dump and page file. Seems that when the machine starts, it firstly read the 100MB partition and then it is leaded to the partition C, where the windows 7 is installed. I SHRINKED THE PARTITION C AND CREATED 3 LOGICAL DRIVES.
Now I want to install OpenSuSE 11.4 on one of my logical drives. What should I do to keep all things well, which means I will be able to dual-boot and also keep my recovery function well? What's more, what I do not want is that the windows 7 cannot be chosen at boot or neither of them can boot!
Installation :: Dual-booting OpenSuSE And Fedora With Shared /boot Partition
Mar 7, 2009I'm trying to achieve my dream (but indeed not perfect) boot scenario: dual-boot OpenSUSE and Fedora with shared /boot, /home and SWAP partitions. First I installed OpenSUSE (sda3 on my layout below) with separate /boot (sda2), /home (sda5, encrypted) and SWAP (sda6), next I installed Fedora on /dev/sda1, and pointed it to mount sda2, sda5, sda6 with respective mount points, without formatting. I proceeded with the installation without installing new GRUB bootloader (overwriting an existing one).
It was successfull and now I'm back in OpenSuSE trying to edit menu.lst file (under /boot/grub) to make GRUB boot Fedora.
I attached a copy of menu.lst I cooked up for now. OK, it's a mess. Life would be allot easier if I didn't have a separate /boot partition, as I could just chainload, but it's no longer possible (or is it?). May be I needed to specify the resume device or problem is in initrd? below are the contents of /boot:
Ubuntu :: Booting To Usb From Grub2?
May 4, 2010Small issue with grub 2. I installed fedora on a usb drive and i'm trying to get it to boot from grub 2. I did update-grub and it found the kernel on /dev/sdd2 but for some reason it is trying to point the kernel file to /boot directory in grub but the kernel is on the usb drive and when i try to set it to look at the usb drive it says file not found.
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Oct 16, 2010I have Win 7 in my hard drive (sda) and I installed Ubuntu 10.04 in other hard disk (a usb disk), but when I try to boot my pc from the usb disk (sdb), the grub shell is displayed. No menu is displayed. When I boot Windows 7 from sda, it runs correctly. The problem it's when i wanna boot Ubuntu. I ran bootscript on the live CD and this is what I've obtained:
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks on the same drive in partition #1 for /boot/grub.
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Ubuntu :: Grub2 Not Booting Windows?
Dec 5, 2010So to make things short, here's my situation: I was having the "no module found" problem, because dell software kept on messing with the MBR So I restored the MBR using Windows recovery and deleted the dell software Re-installed ubuntu 10.10 off the liveCD ~Then I had problems getting GRUB2 boot menu to show at boot, but i fixed that~ Now I'm having the problem where whenever I try to boot into windows 7 through GRUB2 instead of booting windows I just get:
"bootmgr is missing"
Note: I can still boot into Ubunutu 10.10 just fine.
Ubuntu :: Booting Into Efix Using Grub2?
Mar 19, 2011efix is a usb bpu (booting processing unit) that can handle various OS. I'd like to have Grub2 pointing at it, list it and be able to start the booting process from there. My ubuntu 10.04 sees the device but apparently I can't configure the 40_custom file properly. I'm also using Burg as theme manager for grub2. Below you can find my system specs.
|Motherboard: ASUS P6T SE bios v:0805
|CPU: intel corei7 930 2.80 ghz|GPU: ASUS Nvidia 250 gts 1GB|
|Ram: 6GB ddr3 1333 corsair (running at 1066)
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Ubuntu :: XP Not Booting After Grub2 Upgrade
May 2, 2010I am dual-booting XP, and all has been fine for a while....until I upgraded Grub yesterday. This was due to the boot menu not updating properly, and I realised the system was still using the old grub. The update instructions I used advised putting grub2 on all partitions if you were not sure which one to go for.....I guess this has "upset" the chainloading process, as when I select XP from the menu, I just get a black screen with flashing white cursor, which doesn't seem to respond to anything except CNTRL+ALT+DELETE!
I can still access all Windows files from Linux, and can see that system files like boot.ini are sill there. Both systems have been backed up, but would prefer not reinstalling right now if possible.
Below I'll paste grub.cfg and fdisk -l; any suggestions gratefully received!
ps the computer is a Sony Viao laptop: Core Duo 1.6 GHz - 1 GB Ram - 80 GB HDD, running XP Media Centre and Ubuntu 10.04
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
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