** Reply to message from "Rajko M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:48:55 -0600
> On Saturday 29 December 2007 12:27:24 pm Stan Goodman wrote: > > > When I undo that, and get the boot sequence right, I will go ahead to the > > original problem. > > Now is generic boot code in MBR, and openSUSE maintenace partition is marked > as bootable. That is why it jumps direct to boot sector of maintenance > partition. This is new feature since 10.2 (so far I recall) and makes change > of boot menu as simple as marking partition as bootable using any fdisk > program. With generic boot sector only one partition should be marked as > bootable. > > -- > Regards, > Rajko > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know what to make of this. On my system, three partitions are marked as "Bootable": OS/2, The failed-updated v10.2 that didn't turn into v10.3, and The newly installed v10.3 maintenance partition. "Bootable" is a synonym for "is listed in Boot Manager". If I remove the "Bootable" label from any of the three bootable partitions, that partition would no longer be accessible through Boot Manager. This restriction was _not_ present in v10.2 (when I had two partitions listed as "Bootable". If it exists now, it is an innovation of v10.3. The only unique lable for a partition is "Startable"; Boot Manager is "Startable", because it is supposed to be what a loading system starts. What seems to have happened now is that v10.3 has interposed its own boot manager before Boot Manager. This is dictatorial; it's something one might expect from Microsoft. There has to be a way around that. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "And then We said to the Children of Israel: 'Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, We will gather you together from your exiles.'" -- The Prophet Mohammad, in The Quran, Sura 17:104, The Night Journey, giving the authoritative Islamic view of the Jewish connection with the Land of Israel, to which not one Muslim in a million subscribes. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
