Hi Rajko, On Friday 26 October 2007 18:36:25 Rajko M. wrote: <snip> > > Clive, > > what is the problem with my explanation?
Nothing as far as I can see. I had a look around the internet for my own benefit. > Since 10.2 openSUSE is using generic bootloader that will boot any > partition marked bootable independent of installed operating system. Right now my friend is trying out different versions of LInux so I am not sure which way he is going to jump. > > Install grub in boot sector of openSUSE partition and using console program > cfdisk make it active, it is called 'bootable' in cfdisk. > MBR of hard disk will stay as is. > Limitation to this is that bootable can be only primary partition, not > logical as generic bootloader is looking in partition table that has only 4 > entries for primary partitions. This I e-mailed to him when you sent it too me. > > YaST Partitioner for now lacks ability to change bootable/active flag so > you have to use external program (cfdisk) to change it. As you know most other distros don't use YaST so again a quick check would help him here and I could also e-mail him the pages I found. > > If your friend decide not to use Linux all you have to do is to boot in > openSUSE and run cfdisk again and mark windows partition as bootable and > openSUSE will disappear, while it will be possible to boot it from CD or > USB stick. Yes, I sent him the information and he has not come back to me as yet so I don't know what he is doing. As far as I am concerned he should just install either lilo or grub on the mbr and be done with it. But, he will only boot into a linux distro which ever one he decides to use using the CD or as I wrote him the USB stick like you said in your mail. Some people just like to be different for the sake of it I think ;-) I am hopeful he will go with SuSE 10.3 but this will be his decision. > > -- > Regards, > Rajko. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
