2009/11/5 Clayton
I have never seen a Fedora or Ubuntu release which could boot an openSUSE installation either (Things may have changed with this year's versions, but I have not bothered trying them as yet.)
Really? Interesting. I've done many mutiboot installs, and they've always worked... even with 6 or 8 different Linux versions. Each successive install was able to "find" the previous and in the end the last install had a kind of "master" Grub. In my case that last install was always openSUSE since I prefer the Grub menu we have to others.
Anyway, those that are responsible for the Grub fixes have stated that this situation isn't going to change for the 11.2 release - I understand the reasoning... I don't agree with the decision, but hey... that's life :-)
I've often done this, but always worked the other way round, basically used a Master /boot & GRUB installation and just required the later installs to create a clean /boot example. So I didn't see the issue that you have, I just never have seen any sign of that sort of thing working, well reliably enough for me. Now actually I considered that bug & others before voting, and decided on balance, it is not so serious, in scheme of installation bugs past. When a Linux install stops Windows booting it is worse as they may require installation media, someone with multiple Linux installs is perfectly capable of booting with a Live CD (possibly with forum help) fixing up the GRUB entries, or using GRUB's interactive features to boot a working kernel. In a way, the complete failure to boot with just a dark screen, I see on the laptop I write this appears worse. Anyone trying GM CD/DVD is just going to see a boot failure, right after Linux loads when initialisting PCI stuff. Then likely give up on Linux, as all the 2.6.31 kernels I've tried so far fail in same way. The only way around this type of issue, is to offer an alternative older kernel, which has drawback of complicating userspace, when features like ext4 won't be available. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org