Ok,
So I installed Lubuntu next to openSuSE 13.1.
Lubuntu replaced openSuSE's bootloader with its own.
I wouldn't care, except the menu granularity that existed in Grub2, is gone in Grub1.99 so I'm not able to distinguish between openSuSE's boot options. I can't differentiate between kernels or versions (pae, generic, rescue, etc.) to select.
Lubuntu's Grub 1.99 truncates all but the distro name.
I've scoured the forums and found this solution, however , it didn't work for me (3 or 4 times):
https://forums.opensuse.org/content/....html#comments
i followed it to the letter, replacing his root partition(sda3) with mine(sda2). The post is over a year old, and uses openSuSE 12.x, so I'm not sure if it applies to 13.1.
Some of the commands wouldn't take (mount /proc, mount /sys), and others said it was errors
(grub2-mkconfig (something about /dev not being mounted..)).
Anyway I used YaST to rebuild the bootloader in SuSE, ultimately.
In a nutshell:
sda1 = swap
sda2 = boot,root of openSuSE 13.1
sda3 = /home of openSuSE 13.1
sda4 = (extended partition)
sda5 = root,/home, (everything) of Lubuntu 13.10
Now the issue I'm having is that I tried to rebuild Grub2 (thru YaST) every which way to the moon, and I see that the files related to grub2(on sda2) have changed, however, I don't think that the bootloader for Lubuntu sees it on sda2 first. I don't think the "control" of the bootloader has gone back to openSuSE. I think Lubuntu has control.
After some digging, I'm speculating that the bootloader for Lubuntu is on sda5.
* I don't know how the system determines whether or not to look on sda2 first, or sda5.
sda2 IS the boot partition.
* Sure I can rebuild openSuSE's bootloader on sda2, but
how do I get the "system" to use that one instead of sda5 (if in fact , that's where it is).
I also don't know if in fact Grub2 on sda2 sees Grub1.99 and is "passing control" to it, or if Grub1.99 "stole" control from Grub2 and doesn't see it, or essentially ..... "who's on first ?" (baseball analogy) - LOL.
So.... Whose on first ???
* To make matters worse Lubuntu doesn't have a nice GUI app to manipulate Grub1.99, and I don't have the knowledge of how to get into grub from the command line. openSuSE on the other hand has an app in YaST which I have no problem using.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Brick.
So I installed Lubuntu next to openSuSE 13.1.
Lubuntu replaced openSuSE's bootloader with its own.
I wouldn't care, except the menu granularity that existed in Grub2, is gone in Grub1.99 so I'm not able to distinguish between openSuSE's boot options. I can't differentiate between kernels or versions (pae, generic, rescue, etc.) to select.
Lubuntu's Grub 1.99 truncates all but the distro name.
I've scoured the forums and found this solution, however , it didn't work for me (3 or 4 times):
https://forums.opensuse.org/content/....html#comments
i followed it to the letter, replacing his root partition(sda3) with mine(sda2). The post is over a year old, and uses openSuSE 12.x, so I'm not sure if it applies to 13.1.
Some of the commands wouldn't take (mount /proc, mount /sys), and others said it was errors
(grub2-mkconfig (something about /dev not being mounted..)).
Anyway I used YaST to rebuild the bootloader in SuSE, ultimately.
In a nutshell:
sda1 = swap
sda2 = boot,root of openSuSE 13.1
sda3 = /home of openSuSE 13.1
sda4 = (extended partition)
sda5 = root,/home, (everything) of Lubuntu 13.10
Now the issue I'm having is that I tried to rebuild Grub2 (thru YaST) every which way to the moon, and I see that the files related to grub2(on sda2) have changed, however, I don't think that the bootloader for Lubuntu sees it on sda2 first. I don't think the "control" of the bootloader has gone back to openSuSE. I think Lubuntu has control.
After some digging, I'm speculating that the bootloader for Lubuntu is on sda5.
* I don't know how the system determines whether or not to look on sda2 first, or sda5.
sda2 IS the boot partition.
* Sure I can rebuild openSuSE's bootloader on sda2, but
how do I get the "system" to use that one instead of sda5 (if in fact , that's where it is).
I also don't know if in fact Grub2 on sda2 sees Grub1.99 and is "passing control" to it, or if Grub1.99 "stole" control from Grub2 and doesn't see it, or essentially ..... "who's on first ?" (baseball analogy) - LOL.
So.... Whose on first ???
* To make matters worse Lubuntu doesn't have a nice GUI app to manipulate Grub1.99, and I don't have the knowledge of how to get into grub from the command line. openSuSE on the other hand has an app in YaST which I have no problem using.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Brick.