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: Vista and GRUB

[eagle_y2j]

Originally Posted by amitava82

did u try this method posted here: Vista and GRUB

tried but no sucess

[freebird]

Originally Posted by 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

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]

Originally Posted by tech_your_future

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

[freebird]

try

$ su -
(give ur root passwd)

now at "#" prompt :

~#   /sbin/fdisk -l

now post the o/p.

[eagle_y2j]

k here is the output:-

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2434 19551073+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 2435 4865 19527007+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2435 4788 18908473+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 4789 4865 618471 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 2 9729 78140160 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 2 4875 39150373+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb6 4876 9729 38989723+ b W95 FAT32
linux-nrn0:/home/loveme #

[freebird]

you may have ur windows on second hdd?that's a possibility na?

anyways,try once more editing /boot/grub/menu.lst
as :

title           Microsoft Windows Vista
root            (hd1,4)
savedefault
chainloader     +1

try.....

[mehulved]

change root to rootnoverify in menu.lst

[drsethi]

I am having similar problem
I have Windows XP SP2 on hda1
Windows vista beta on hda8
Suse 10.2 on hda 10.
I can boot XP and Suse but not vista by any means.
Menu.lst entries are as follows
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,9)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default root=/dev/sda10 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda9 splash=silent showopts elevator=
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default root=/dev/sda10 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default
Please tell me what should be entered in Menu.lst or elsewhere so I can boot Vista as well.

[mehulved]

drsethi you should try the same too. Change root to rootnoverify for vista.

[eagle_y2j]

drsethi %%%bumped ...
tried

title           Microsoft Windows Vista
root            (hd1,4)
savedefault
chainloader     +1

also tried rootnoverify (hd1,4)

getting continous beeps with following error
root (hd1,4)
filesystem type is fat,partition type 0 X b
safedefault
chainloader +1

[mehulved]

it's hd0,4 not 1,4

[praka123]

@eagle_y2j
does it worked?the soltn 4m tyf.if not try to add "makeactive" also..

title           Microsoft Windows Vista
rootnoverify    (hd0,4)
makeactive
chainloader     +1

[freebird]

try this since u have vista on a non-primary partn(hda5) afaik.this make Vista to belive its installed on primary partn.this may be the soltn

 title Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,5) 
map (hd0,0) (hd0,5)
map (hd0,5) (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

M$ wants their OS to be the only one installed on ur disk..