Add Mandriva to Suse 9.3 bootloader

raysr · 05-13-2006, 02:17 AM

I have (had) a dual drive dual boot Mandriva, Suse9.3 set-up. For some reason Mandriva went to hell and I had to reinstall it. I lost suse in the bootloader process but was able to get it back by running the first cd and reinstalling the bootloader. Of course now I don't have Mandriva and I can't remember what Suse called it when I installed Suse. How can I add Mandriva back to the Suse bootloader? Disk order, Default Section,or Available sections? Mandriva is on hda1 which is where the Suse bootloader is and Suse is on hdb1.

reddazz · 05-13-2006, 02:39 AM

Your entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst could be as follows,

Code:

title Mandriva Linux
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 resume=/dev/hda5  splash=silent
    initrd /boot/initrd.img

raysr · 05-13-2006, 12:17 PM

I found the "old" menu list in grub. Can I replace the new menu list somehow with the old and then be able to boot mandriva? It just called mandriva "linux". Also how can I change from verbose splash to silent?

reddazz · 05-13-2006, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raysr

I found the "old" menu list in grub. Can I replace the new menu list somehow with the old and then be able to boot mandriva? It just called mandriva "linux". Also how can I change from verbose splash to silent?

You could just copy the old menu.lst to /boot/grub/menu.lst. As for changing splash to silent, look at my post above. The entry I posted above should have worked for you.

raysr · 05-13-2006, 02:37 PM

I copied it exactly as the old list. Is there something else I need to do in "yast" bootloader because none of these changes show up at boot. I changed the splash to silent but I'm still getting the verbose.

reddazz · 05-14-2006, 01:35 AM

Well if you make changes to /boot/grub/menu.lst they should show up the next time you reboot your computer so I am not sure what you could be doing wrong.

raysr · 05-15-2006, 01:15 AM

I got it to work! What I was doing wrong was editing the files that have the suse logo on them, I don't know what they're called but there like left over files or something. So I found the "menu list" text file and modified it and it worked perfrct. Thanks for trying to help.