Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Linux has now been removed from your computer, but its boot loader persists. In this video i go through stepbystep how to install opensuse, and how to use their manual partitioning tool. Since windows insists on having a fat32 esp, installing ubuntu first may be a bit safer, but not all that much betterany way you slice it, youll have to undo damage done by ubuntus installer. You should now be able to boot windows without any problem. A sample configuration for a computer with both windows and linux is shown in example 8. Dual booting with windows 8, not as painful as expected. The root partition is specified according to the linux convention devhda7, as this information is. A boot loader represents the interface between the machine bios and the operating system suse linux enterprise server. When your computer reboots you will reboot into the grub boot loader with the option to select windows or opensuse 12. I want make dual boot with windows 7 64bit home premium and opensuse 11. Archive page 15 questions about installation, login, boot issues, partitioning, file systems, software that runs at boot grub, lilo, boot scripts installbootlogin archive page 15 opensuse forums. How to dualboot opensuse with windows or another linux distribution. Welcome to the suse product documentation home page.
After its successful completion it got into a strange situation. This change enables you to configure lilo using yast2s boot loader configuration dialog. Last time i checked, the opensuse people didnt seem to have much consideration for people trying to boot from a fat32 file system, which is what one has to use to create the usb from windows in non dd mode, as, unlike what all of the other major linux distros do, they designed their boot process to only detect an iso9660 installation media. A special yast module is available for configuring. The boot loader grub administration guide suse linux.
If you reinstall dos or windows after installing lilo, you may find that the lilo. This erased duet and my ability to boot windows and fedora. Yep, it is screenshot heavy and may be slow to load for some as i have choosen to make it a single page. Boot from the windows xp cd, press the key r in the setup in order to start the restoration console. Windows 10 item does not show up in grub menu after installing. I havent tried it with lilo, but it should work the same. If this option is missing, lilo is installed on the current root partition by default. So i was using legacy boot option which automatically logged into opensuse and when i wanted to log into windows i changed it from the boot menu at the start up.
Now execute the command lilo in the shell to update the boot manager with. Configuring lilo, the linux loader guide to linux for beginners. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our. You can report issues by clicking on the report bug link in the headlines of the html. The configuration of the boot loader directly impacts the start of the operating system. Grub hangs with the message grub when booting from a scsi hard disk 20030623 sdb. The lilo boot sector with the initial part first stage of the lilo code that activates the actual lilo when the system is booted. When your machine loads its operating system, the bios reads the first 512 bytes of your bootable media which is known as the master boot record, or mbr.
Suse opensuse this forum is for the discussion of suse linux. During installation opensuse will detect ms windows and the bootloader will display a menu on each startup letting you choose whether to boot opensuse or ms windows. Release notes for previous versions are available in the release notes archive. This is easily done by launching the map installers as root with the command sbinlilo lilo creates a backup of the target boot sector, writes its first stage into the boot sector, then generates a. If you reboot now, you should boot straight into windows. The efi linux loader elilo is the oldest and most stable efi boot loader for linux.
Press f12 and enter boot menu when you see bios interface. Now well put windows in charge again, reboot your system after installing opensuse. This means that after first reboot, you wont see opensuse anywhere in the boot menu. Running the command lilo as root will install lilo to the mbr. Now, use easybcd to recover your mbr, also select your windows boot drivepartition as the systems boot drivepartition. If i was using uefi boot option then my computer automatically logged onto the windows os. To change the value of an existing option, select it with the mouse and click edit.
The boot procedure as a whole is outlined in chapitre 7, booting a linux system. This page is part of my managing efi boot loaders for linux document. One typical problem you encounter when you create multiboot systems is making lilo and grub work in tandem. To edit the config files for the selected boot loader default is grub, click other button and select the options like edit configuration files or start from scratch for advanced options like changing the default grub boot loader to say lilo, click the boot loader installation tab. This is how i dualboot my windows 10 rig with opensuse leap. If a web search has brought you to this page, you may want to start at the beginning. Click end to complete the configuration and confirm with yes. Start yast2 and change to the dialog bootloader configuration. The linux boot loader lilo is suitable for installation in the mbr.
Well need to use a windows installer disc to overwrite the linux boot loader with the windows boot loader. If you dont have a windows installer disc lying around, you can create a windows repair disc and use that instead. Most simply, a boot loader loads the operating system. There are a great many ways to dualboot windows and opensuse. This would set your system to boot using the live label with a screen resolution to 24bit 1280x1024. Aside from having used suse linux in my early linux days, the main reason i chose opensuse to dual boot on my machine is because it has so many options during the install process. Why i chose opensuse and dual booting with windows 8. These instructions explain how to create a bootable usb stick to install opensuse from the livecd isos or from the dvd which were originally intended for optical media. First, find out how to boot your system to linux in uefi mode and gain. The appended arguments are kernel parameters, such as the root partition and the video mode. By default, suse uses grub as a boot loader, but lilo is available too please note that it is necessary to run the. How to uninstall a linux dualboot system from your computer.
Each system section starts with a line beginning with image or other. For this discussion, we will focus on creating a xandros, fedora, and microsoft windows triplebooting system as an example of creating multiboot systems involving windows, lilousing, and grubusing distros. It is a successor of the traditional grub boot loader now called grub legacy. On booting windows, there was a message about unsupported image. A boot loader represents the interface between the machine bios and the operating system opensuse. Grub 2 has been the default boot loader in suse linux enterprise server since version 12. This document discusses methods to recover from linux system failures. Dual boot opensuse leap and windows 10 uefi tweakhound. Select the label of your windows partition as boot partition from the list in our example devhda1 and confirm with next. Various reasons for linux system failures can be lilo is destroyed, or linux fails to boot, or master boot record mbr is damaged or linux fails to boot when another operating system like windows nt is installed which erases lilo or mbr. I immediately recognized the bug as one that had been reported in opensuse forums. The dialog boot loader configuration can be found under the entry system. This is the extended partition, inside which sda6 is located, which is the root partition for our new opensuse installation.
Here are some more examples of common vga boot values. Login to single user mode in suse linux sles opensuse. Its intended as a supplement to the lilo users guide. Forget ubuntu, now opensuse linux comes to windows 10. This chapter focuses on boot management and the configuration of the boot loader grub. A map file boot map, where lilo enters the location of linux kernels and other data during its installation. Documentation for previous versions is available in the documentation archive.
Currently, the users have two options opensuse leap 42. The boot loader lilo will be uninstalled and the original mbr will be restored. It also provides the important possibility of passing a command to the kernel. Use the section management tab to edit, change, and delete boot loader sections for the individual operating systems. Windows 7 forums is the largest help and support community, providing friendly help and advice for microsoft windows 7 computers such as dell, hp, acer, asus or a custom build. Lilo is the linux boot manager which was used as the default instead of grub in the beginning of linux, opensuse still has the option to use lilo if you would like to. This will boot the suse linux enterprise server 11. This file describes some typical lilo installations. To remove an existing entry, select it and click delete. The boot loader grub 2 administration guide suse linux.
Lilo is the most used linux loader for the x86 flavor of linux. Select modify current configuration uninstall boot loader. If you continue to use this site, you agree to the use of cookies. In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with grub 2, add and remove menu entries, customize titles and boot options, dualboot and tripleboot operating systems, combine legacy grub and grub 2, and we will even see how windows fits into this scheme. As lilo uses pretty much the same naming convention as grub most of the following information still applies, with a few exceptions like the grub commands eg. Ill call it lilo rather than lilo here because i dont appreciate uppercase. To start this dialog, launch the yast2 control center. The use of the windows boot manager does not replace grub or lilo. The windows boot manager provides an alternative place where. I tried installing fedora 21, but it didnt offer enough control and i was nervous that it wouldnt play nice with windows and uefi. One of the options for booting linux is to use the windows boot manager, which is part of recent versions of windows. This means that the bootloader inside mbr, whichever it is, wont be touched. Installation howto install opensuse on your computer. You can store the boot record of only one operating system in a single mbr, so a problem becomes apparent when you require multiple operating systems.
I think examples are informative even if your setup isnt much like mine. Locate the grub or lilo boot sector should be the first sector in your linux partition, copy it to a file, place that file on the main windows partition in c. Using the windows boot manager thoughts on computing. The kernel vmlinuz is located on the first hard disk on the first logical partition which is the boot partition in this case. The linux loader, or lilo for short, is a legacy multiboot loader for linux systems. Please do not contact me with questions on this topic. Contributions to the guides listed above are welcome. You still need a way to load the linux operating system. Some computers use esc, f8, f10 for boot menu, you should see it on bios screen select your usb stick in the boot menu. Lilo is the linux loader, the most popular boot loader for linux.
Select your windows xp installation from the list, and enter the administrator password. This should boot grub, select windows 10 loader on devsdax. Vga boot modes to set screen resolution pen drive linux. I want to remove the linux partition without affecting my windows. Then you can follow the normal dvd installation instructions. In the video we change it from opensuse to windows 7, so when the computer is restarted, the windows 7 menu entry in grub will. The boot procedure as a whole is outlined in chapter 10, booting and configuring a linux system. Replacing the boot loader grub with lilo in suse 8. The first entry title linux is responsible for booting suse linux. Backup your computer with a disk image before attempting this. If you are not familiar with boot loader options, read section 15. A yast module is available for configuring the most important settings. On this page, find technical documentation, such as quick starts, guides, manuals, and best practices for all suse products and solutions.
After that, we will learn how to recover from errors and mistakes. If any of the lilo components have changed, or if you have modified your configuration in etcnf, you must update the lilo boot loader. Under windows xp, you can restore the original mbr thus uninstalling lilo as follows. Its similar to the old linux loader lilo bios boot loader, so linux oldtimers should find elilo familiar. Once you have selected one of the three options, click ok.
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