[SLUG] Re: Suse 10.3 & booting

[jam <jam@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 12:00 +1100, slug-request@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>         Hope you guys can help me.
>         
>         Sorry for sending again but there was a typ in my original
>         e-mail.
>         
>         
>         I was trying out Suse 10.3 over the weekend and tried to dual
>         boot it with
>         Windows Vista.
>         
>         The menu.1st file is blank and if you go into the Yast admin
>         tool for
>         booting you can make changes but it does not save the changes
>         and I do not
>         know where it is trying to save them too as the menu.1st is
>         blank. I even
>         tired modifying the menu.1st file and Suse created another
>         blank boot.1st
>         file. I was root when I modified the files.
>         
>         The grub.conf file just mentions somehting about phase2.
>         
>         Does anyone have any ideas.

Ummm trying to solve 'some problem somewhere' is a waste of time for
everybody involved:

If you install SuSE 10.3 then menu,lst is NOT blank.
grub.conf is NOT relevant (it is on RH/Fedora)

Solve this before you worry about booting win (I've never done vista,
can't help) but Xp is automatically detected and an entry in menu.lst
results.

Use 'less /boot/grub/menu.lst' to see it, <shudder> you can even edit it
with nano or joe. 
Make 1 page of notes and use vi (vim)!
<esc>:q to quit, <esc>:w to write, i to insert, <esc> to stop inserting,
x to blot out 1 char
There 1 line!
James