[LBo] I've lost SuSE since dual booting!

[Anita Lewis]

On 09/17/2006 09:57 AM Jisao wrote:

> To tweak grub (which I tried), start your computer.  When you get to the 
> grub screen, press any key to stop the countdown. Then read the 
> instructions on the screen. Grub, on top of being a bootloader, is also 
> a shell.  You have access to shell command which allow you to 
> change/edit the line to load grub. When you find the combination that 
> boots your Suse, then put it in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
> 

For a little information on how to use the grub command line to get your 
SUSE to boot:

http://linuxbasics.org/tutorials/advanced/grub_command_line

Or you could boot into Fedora and then mount the SUSE partition.  Then 
look at the menu.lst in SUSE and copy the SUSE part into your Fedora 
menu.lst

Let's say SUSE is on /dev/hda2

mount /dev/hda2 /mnt  (you may have to add "-t reiserfs" or whatever 
type it is.  You also may have to "mkdir /mnt" if you don't have it.

cd /mnt/boot/grub
less menu.lst (find the part that has the title for SUSE and copy that 
into /boot/grub/menu.lst on Fedora)

Then when you reboot, you should see a stanza for SUSE.

There are many ways to handle this.  Jisao's idea of chainloading is 
really nice if you plan to try many distros. Not all will give you a 
choice about where to put grub; so learning to fix this can be important.

Anita