Help with dual-booting linux system?

Question

I'm working on a project for Networking in which I have to install two different Linux operating systems(Free BSD and OpenSuse) on a computer and get them to dual boot.

I'm heading to the computer lab this afternoon to get this done, but I have a concern regarding the dual booting. I've been experimenting with FreeBSD and Fedora 14 at home with a junk computer I have, figuring if I could get Fedora 14 and FreeBSD to dual boot, then doing so with OpenSuse wouldn't be a problem.

Unfortunately in my experimentation, I've been able to load both O/S's onto the junk computer, but it will only allow me to boot to the last one I loaded. No menu comes up to let me choose. I know the Fedora 14 is on there because in the FreeBSD GUI, I can view a file that says "Fedora14" but can not access it, as expected.
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So, I have OpenSuse loaded onto the machine at school, and will be putting freeBSD onto its own partition this afternoon. Are there any steps I need to take to ensure I am given the option to choose between the O/S's? I was under the impression that a menu would come up automatically...

Thank you sincerely for any help!

Answer 1

Opensuse uses grub as it's bootloader, to get it to load BSD I would assume that GRUB would need to update it's list of available operating systems, I personally dont use opensuse so I don't know the command in that distro but in ubuntu you run the command "sudo update-grub" and this scans your partitions and updates the available os's . I would also see if there is an advanced setting to stop BSD from installing it's own bootloader so that he bootloader installed by opensuse is the only one.

Tell me how this works out for you as I am very interested

Answer 2

well dude u cant access the linux partition through windows but u can access the windows derive through linux create a folder on the desktop on red hat and name it nav and loin as root and type the following command mount /dev/sda1/ /root/Desktop/nav ur c drive will be in the folder nav like wise for d mount /dev/sdb5/ /root/Desktop/mo create molder mo first before running the command

Answer 3

This should work with open suse or fedora also.

Good luck