> Perhaps I was not able to explain this properly. I already know what
> you wrote. Its the location of GRUB. I don't want GRUB to touch the
Well GRUB is sitting in MBR - if you don't overrite the MBR it is grub who is
booting your PC irrespective of what you see.
> MBR and leave it as it is. Unless I am horribly wrong, I think when
> GRUB is loaded in MBR it does not matter what your active (or
> bootable) partition is. Whereas in my last OpenSuSe installation (I
> think 10.2 or so), I remember just switch off the boot flag of linux
Changing your boot flag wont change anything till grub is in control.
What you might have done is use some graphical boot option editor in SUSE
which might have made the appropriate changes in the grub configuration file.
> partition and setting the boot flag on windows to on using fdisk
> helped me boot directly into windows Xp without showing GRUB menu.
This can be easily achieved by setting the timeout to zero and setting the
default
partition to windows.
> Doing this effectively rendered the SuSe installation useless as you
> cant boot into it. When I toggled the boot flags in the partition
> table again, Grub menu starts showing again. This shows that OpenSuSe
> loaded GRUB not on MBR but on the linux partition. Again in my
> experience, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian by default loads GRUB on MBR.
I am not sure of this but did you by any chance install grub on the partition
instead of the MBR
I suppose the behavior you are describe can be achieved in that case though I
am not sure of
that myself.
> What I meant to ask was, during installation how do I change GRUB
> location in other linux distros.
/boot/grub/grub.conf is the correct file to edit in most distro.
info grub - will give you more details about the configuration settings.
- Mithun
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