At 17:43:20 on Friday Friday 02 October 2009, Stan Goodman
At 16:19:41 on Friday Friday 02 October 2009, jdd
wrote: Stan Goodman a écrit :
That must be a typo; the boot manager is not the boot loader.
of course it is. what do manage the boot if not the boot loader? certainly not the partition table
In all respect, the function of the Boot Manager is to choose among the various systems on the machine. For example, a developer may have several Linux distros on his machine for debugging purposes; a Windows addict may have XP and a Linux; for some time after I switched to Linux, I kept OS/2 for purposes of reference. The Boot Manager is not Grub, which is the Boot Loader; if and when I ever get this thing straightened out, I will put Grub in /boot, which will be in the / partigion. Putting it in the Boot Manager partition would defeat the purpose of multiple operating systems.
I'm sorry too. What else would you like to see?
read below what I wrote in the last mail:
what is the full size of your drive? you have to write down the starting/ending sector of each partition.
run the openSUSE dvd, rescue system and type fdisk -l
copy the result here
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/sda1 * 1 1 8001 a OS/2 Boot Manager /dev/sda2 2 9479 76132035 5 Extended /dev/sda5 2 271 2168743 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 272 4238 31684896 83 Linux /dev/sda7 4239 9479 42098301 83 Linux
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