On Tue 27 Mar 2007 11:25:55 NZST +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I've got a multi-boot system onto which I've just added opensuse 10.2. > Now, I may have missed an option, but... > > 1. It overwrote the existing ubuntu grub. 2. After reinstating the
Every OS you install wants/needs to install a boot loader for obvious reasons. Can't complain there. If you have a highly souped up system, you're capable to work around it ;) > ubuntu grub and updating the menu.lst to include opensust, it gets > halfway and fails. > > The approach of not installing a bootloader and updating the ubuntu > one works fine for fc6, debian sarge and freebsd so far, so what's so > special about opensuse? Nothing special, no wait, no let's not go into that. What exactly has happened? Yast has asked you where and how to install a boot loader. I have never looked at it from the point of not installing one at all, but see if it has an option for skipping the step. If it doesn't, suggest it at bugzilla.novell.com - right now 10.3 is in alpha and the opportunity for new features will run out soonish. Btw the commands used to install grub are in /etc/grub.conf, the grub menu is in /boot/grub/menu.lst. IIUYC you used an otherdistro grub to load suse (nothing wrong with that). If it starts booting suse and then fails, you probably got the menu.lst entry of otherdistro wrong. What exactly is the error, and the menu.lst entry you use for booting suse? Oh, did you install any updates yet? Installing the kernel update buggers the menu.lst. Workaround: install kernel update rpm, and rename the /boot/grub/menu.lst.old over /boot/grub/menu.lst BEFORE REBOOTING. You might also want to cross-check (and perhaps edit) the .old before renaming. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
