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Dual boot openSUSE 11.3 and Mint Linux

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http://forums.opensuse.org – Hello, I installed openSUSE 11.3 on a computer with Mint. openSUSE opens but there's not Mint on Grub. I'm kind of confused with Grub. I read that Grub2 counts the disks like (hdx,x+1). How can I make openSUSE Grub to boot also Mint? I think the same problem is if there's Ubuntu installed (since Mint is Ubuntu based). Ubuntu went to Grub2 to make it difficult for their users to dual boot other distros. (Distributions)

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