Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (594 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, 2009-09-24 at 20:57 +0200, josef reidinger wrote:

> Hi,
> it is not bug it is feature :)
> Main reason is that grub support this and that some users want this
> usage. For another bootloader like elilo or powerlilo there is only on
> option. If you choose more options then to each of selected place is
> installed bootloader code which allows you to boot.
> Advantage is that if you select e.g. boot from MBR and boot from boot
> and then want install next version or another system, which allows
> chainload then you can safety replace MBR and set as one boot option
> chainload to old bootloader boot sector and that loads your boot with
> old code that read old menu.lst.

That's an interesting feature... which is unknown to us users. It should 
be mentioned somewhere in Yast, perhaps the help text.

I also thought it was a bug.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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