How to add VISTA's boot entry to GRUB

[eagle_y2j]

I am running Open Suse 10.2 ,installed after installing MS Vista (ultimate) but i can't see boot entry of Vista in GRUB ? How to add that in my case Vista is on primary partion hda5 .
TIA

 

[Pathik]

well open suse detected my vista as a windows os n added its boot entry automatically...

 

[amitava82]

did u try this method posted here: *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49434

 

[eagle_y2j]

did u try this method posted here: *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49434

tried but no sucess

 

[freebird]

I am running Open Suse 10.2 ,installed after installing MS Vista (ultimate) but i can't see boot entry of Vista in GRUB ? How to add that in my case Vista is on primary partion hda5 .
TIA

as root edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst and save:
at the end of the file.

title           Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
root            (hd0,4)
savedefault
chainloader     +1

you can use any editors like gedit as root user to save it.try at "$" prompt

~$gksu gedit  /boot/grub/menu.lst

 

[eagle_y2j]

I tried editing /boot/grub/menu.lst from YAST control panel but each time i am saving

title           Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
root            (hd0,4)
savedefault
chainloader     +1

there it automatically changes into

title Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    savedefault
    chainloader (hd0,4)+1

?

 

[mehulved]

Just try editing it manually.

 

[eagle_y2j]

tried
# edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

but how to insert new data and how to save in root mode

 

[desertwind]

Already answered by freebird.

$ gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

 

[amitava82]

it should be like this (if you have single HDD and Vista is installed in C drive):

open console, type:

gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

remove your existing windows entries n replace with this:

title windows Vista
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
savedefault
chainloader +1

 

[eagle_y2j]

bash: gksu: command not found

 

[mehulved]

gksu is found in gnome. That means you've not install gnome. For KDE there's kdesu

 

[eagle_y2j]

gksu is found in gnome. That means you've not install gnome. For KDE there's kdesu

thankx for this but now it says kdesu can't connect to X server ?

 

[freebird]

do one thing Press ALT+F2 to get a run dialog.then enter those commands in run dialog and press enter-run.

u cant sometimes invoke gksu from terminal ;that is a whole another thing. "xhost +" to disable acl may help.

 

[eagle_y2j]

ok after googling i found this

kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst

 

[freebird]

oh u use kde

 

[eagle_y2j]

Added following to menu.lst sucessfully

title windows Vista
root (hd0,4)
makeactive
savedefault
chainloader +1

but getting following error

Booting Windows Vista
root (hd0,4)
filesystem type unkown,partition type 0 X 7
makeactive
Error 12 :Invalid device requested .....
Press any key to continue.....

 

[freebird]

that error means u have not having win partn as hda5.check again where u have ur windows partn using fdisk:

~#fdisk  -l

I mean post the output

 

[desertwind]

Are you sure that Vista is intalled on hda5?

Can you post the output of the following command

$ sudo fdisk -l

 

[eagle_y2j]

system:/media/hda5 is my Vista's hdd partition and can't figure out above commands
sudo: fdisk: command not found