Take the 2-minute tour ×  If I want to start the boot process,
what file do I point to? I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed on a
separate disk from openSuse 12.1 and windows 7. When I installed
Ubuntu, I had to reinstall the OpenSuse to boot it and windows.
Using OpenSuse boot loader, I can't seem to get the boot menu
configured to start Ubuntu. I understand my problem is with the
OpenSuse boot loader not being configured correctly. As a newbie
I don't really understand the boot process of a linux system.
share|improve this question add comment  1 Answer  OpenSuse uses
the Grub BootLoader. (A Boot Loader is a program that the BIOS
looks for when the computer turns on, it is always located in
the first 446 bytes of the hard drive). Grub then makes the
filesystems of Ubuntu, OpenSuse, and Windows 7 available and
looks to a file called /boot/grub/grub.cfg which tells it what
operating systems are on the computer and how to boot them.  The
Complex answer  Here is and example of a grub.cfg file. This is
what an entry f