Suse 10.3 wount let me see the boot screen

by **airwolf** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:55 pm

ok i think the topic seas it all i tried to select lilo and grub neither of them shows me boot screen in witch i could select what i want to boot linux or windows xp any ideas???? it just loads linux and doest let me select the windows OS ok im totaly green on linux :eek:

im opened to ideas :whistle

by **gries818** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:09 pm

Windows isn't even an option? Did you overwrite Windows by accident?

by **poisonbl** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:50 pm

It may be that there's simply no delay set on how long to wait for the choice before it defaults, try, with lilo, holding the left shift key when going from bios to OS booting and it should show the lilo options that SUSE gave it ... I don't know how to do the equivalent with grub.

This doesn't solve the problem that SUSE may not have automatically included Windows on the menu, though, and you can fix that (as well as forcing a menu to be shown at boot) by changing the config ... which SUSE may or may not have a built in configuration tool to use.

by **airwolf** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:17 pm

everything is set the delay us set to 8 seonds byt he way im drunk so dount mind my wririn :drool:

ne9ther the lilo or grub shows me the boot screen any ideas ^*^

by **gries818** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:00 am

airwolf wrote:everything is set the delay us set to 8 seonds byt he way im drunk so dount mind my wririn ne9ther the lilo or grub shows me the boot screen any ideas

drunk posting - kind of like drunk dialing? :confused

by **poisonbl** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:16 am

gries818 wrote:
airwolf wrote:everything is set the delay us set to 8 seonds byt he way im drunk so dount mind my wririn ne9ther the lilo or grub shows me the boot screen any ideas

drunk posting - kind of like drunk dialing?

Close, but with enough time in the process to come up with something understandable ...

As for the problem, I'm out of ideas ... and I don't have a spare system to throw suse on at the moment to figure it out.

by **imnuts** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:22 am

It kinda sounds like SuSE may have just ignored the Windows installation as was posted earlier. It's not exactly the same, but the basic instructions in the Vista/Linux guide for adding Vista to GRUB should work for XP as well, as long as you're using GRUB. Not sure about lilo, but I'm guessing it's about the same. If that doesn't work, then it sounds more like you installed SuSE on top of XP.

by **airwolf** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:29 pm

thanks anyway for help ill try that guide

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