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[Tom <question78969@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #78969 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78969

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Hi :)

I would back up menu.lst go back in again to tweak it more

cd /boot/grub
ls
sudo cp menu.lst menu.lst.040809
ls
sudo gedit menu.lst

First swap these two blocks around so that failsafe is at the top

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/sda2.
title Linux (on /dev/sda2)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.60-0.21-smp root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200BEVT-_WD-WXE408EZ7321-part2 vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
savedefault
boot

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/sda2.
title Failsafe (on /dev/sda2)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.60-0.21-smp root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200BEVT-_WD-WXE408EZ7321-part2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
savedefault
boot

Then edit the lines that say

title Failsafe (on /dev/sda2)

title Linux (on /dev/sda2)

So that the menu items look nicer rather than saying

Linux (on /dev/sda2)
Failsafe (on /dev/sda2)

There's no point in changing the Ubuntu titles because these will keep
getting automatically updated.  You'll need to do similar updates by
hand every time openSUSE gets a kernel update.  If you used the openSUSE
grub then you'd have to edit the Ubuntu one instead so may as well stick
with the Ubuntu grub.

Ok, to edit the openSUSE grub just in case you need to reinstate that
then you'll need to hunt for it.  On a command-line type in

cd /media
ls

and let us see the results of that.  however, i expect that the link to
openSUSE is called "disk" in there so type in

cd /media/disk/boot/grub
ls
sudo cp menu.lst menu.lst.040809-Suse
ls
gedit menu.lst

and paste the menu.lst from there into here too :)  When you typed the
1st "ls" there you'll have noticed that this isn't the same folder as
we've been working in for Ubuntu - it doesn't have the backups we made
in UBuntu because this is the openSUSE partition, hopefully ;)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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