dual booting kubuntu and Opensuse

[Willy K. Hamra]

On Wednesday 20 May 2009 18:39:38 Goh Lip wrote:
> Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> > anyone here has such a setup? i just would like to know how others
> > configure grub. right now i have a seperate boot partition for ubuntu,
> > and suse has its own partition. is it ok to let suse use the same boot
> > partition as its own boot partition as well? keep suse's boot directory
> > on its root partition? what about grub? so far, i'm very accustomed to
> > ubuntu's grub and like it. i don't care much about suse's fancy eye-candy
> > grub, but if i can have the eye candy with ubuntu's grub i don't mind.
> > i just want to see how people on this list confgured their booting with
> > suse (or another distro if it's the same)
>
> Normally, the last distro to be installed will be the 'overriding' grub
> to be used as its grub will set itself to be 'root' (grub root, that
> is.) If you want Kubuntu grub to be used after Suse has been set up,
> when you are in Kubuntu, (by entering Kubuntu at Suse's grub menu) do
> the following.....
already done these, after getting few boot errors, i realized suse's grub 
doesn't like my savedefault, so i booted kubuntu manually, and restored our 
grub on the device, and i always have a copy of my menu.lst backed up with a 
million different name ;)

eventually, i edited SUSE's fstab, and removed the boot partition from there, 
and let it use the boot directory in its root partition. i kept ubuntu's 
menu.lst and grub, copied the entries from suse's menu.lst over to ubuntu's 
file, edited them of course to reflect correct disk usage.
so now, any editing suse does to its /boot directory is quite useless, as grub 
is reading from ubuntu's sepearate /boot partition.
i also noticed how suse always keeps a link called vmlinuz pointing to the 
newest kernel, so i edited menu.lst to actually point at that link, so any 
future kernels will always be booted without any problems. same goes for 
initrd. all in all, i'm quite satisfied with the setup. the only disadvantage 
is that suse can't properly cooperate with ubuntu so they can both edit the 
menu.lst fairly, so suse's access to its own menu.lst is useless, and so is 
KDE's access to it, but oh well, that's not really needed.
thanks for your help Goh :)
>
> o at a terminal "sudo update-grub"
>    check at the grub menu.list (/boot/grub/menu.lst) that it is indeed
>           updated with the Suse entry. Modify if you want, especially
> the sequence.
>
> o then at terminal,
> sudo grub
>
>  >grub will appear. (type in after the >grub..)
>  >grub find /boot/grub/stage1
>
> you will find 2 entries, (or more if you have more distros)
> something like
> (hd0,2)
> (hd0,4) or whatever
>
> This will represent the partition that you have set up Suse and Kubuntu,
> say sda3 (hd0,2) is Kubuntu and
>      sda5 (hd0,4) is Suse
>
> at >grub type
>
>  >grub root (hd0,2)
>  >grub setup (hd0)
>  >grub quit
>
> You're done.
>
>
> Willy, since you have a dedicated partition for your Kubuntu grub, if
> you want to set this partition as a first grub, and don't worry what
> else you put into any of the partitions, let me know.
> All you need to do when you install a new distro or new Kubuntu is
> remember to set up grub at that / partition itself and point to that
> same partition. Remember when installing Kubuntu? Under advanced, at
> point of naming partition for setup? It will ask you where you want to
> set up grub and if should point to (hd0), Point to (hd0,x) where it is
> the Kubuntu partition. Remember (hd0,x) is sda(x+1); ie, sda5 is (hd0,4).
>
> Regards,
> Goh Lip

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net


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