Recover Suse Grub

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09-24-2010
divyashree

Recover Suse Grub

I have installed XP 1st, then SUSE 11. Now I installed RHEL5 and during installation I only created /(root) partition bcoz while creating swap and /boot for redhat threw error.
And it says it is installing the /boot on /dev/sda.

Now my system is able to boot xp and redhat not suse. How will I recover suse grub menu ,so that I can boot all 3 OS.

Code:

fdisk -l /dev/sda1 * NTFS /dev/sda2 NTFS /dev/sda3 w95 /dev/sda4 linux /dev/sda5 swap/solaris /dev/sda6 linux

Here Redhat is on /dev/sda4 and suse is in /dev/sda4 and the swap for suse is /dev/sda5
09-25-2010
devils casper

Quote:

Here Redhat is on /dev/sda4 and suse is in /dev/sda4

In which partition did you install RHEL?

There is a problem with RedHat based installers. These installers don't detect other installed Linux distros. You have two options now.
1) Mount / partition of SuSe in RHEL, copy first title block ( first title, root, kernel and initrd lines ) from /boot/grub/menu.lst file and paste in /boot/grub/grub.conf file of RHEL. You don't have to re-install SuSe boot loader.

2) Re-install SuSe GRUB and copy title block of RHEL from its grub.conf file and paste in SuSe's menu.lst file.

If you want to re-install GRUB of SuSe, boot up from SuSe installation CD/DVD, select Recovery and execute this

Code:

chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/sda exit exit

First method is better than second, imho.
09-25-2010
divyashree

Quote:

Originally Posted by devils casper

In which partition did you install RHEL?

There is a problem with RedHat based installers. These installers don't detect other installed Linux distros. You have two options now.
1) Mount / partition of SuSe in RHEL, copy first title block ( first title, root, kernel and initrd lines ) from /boot/grub/menu.lst file and paste in /boot/grub/grub.conf file of RHEL. You don't have to re-install SuSe boot loader.

2) Re-install SuSe GRUB and copy title block of RHEL from its grub.conf file and paste in SuSe's menu.lst file.

If you want to re-install GRUB of SuSe, boot up from SuSe installation CD/DVD, select Recovery and execute this

Code:

chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/sda exit exit

First method is better than second, imho.

Sorry suse in /dev/sda6
09-25-2010
devils casper

As I suggested in last post, mount /dev/sda6 partition in RHEL and add an entry of SuSe in RHEL's GRUB Menu.
09-26-2010
divyashree

Quote:

Originally Posted by devils casper

As I suggested in last post, mount /dev/sda6 partition in RHEL and add an entry of SuSe in RHEL's GRUB Menu.

I have tried that adding in grub.conf ,from menu.lst of suse . But it doesnot boot and shows errors and prompt to reboot ,while booting from (hd0,5) .
09-26-2010
devils casper

Post the contents of both files here.
/boot/grub/grub.conf of RHEL and /boot/grub/menu.lst file of SuSe.