-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2010-06-07 at 15:38 +0200, Jozef Uhliarik wrote:
On Monday 07 of June 2010 09:16:58 Dotan Cohen wrote:
I recently installed Open Suse 11.3 beta (build 0625) on a system with another Linux distro in another partition. Interestingly, Suse gave me no option for configuring dual boot, and the resulting boot menu showed only the Suse partition. I was had to install a custom Grub2 to get back into the other distro. Why doesn't Suse provide this?
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Simple: * adding other OSes with GRUB2 is not supported because GRUB2. There you can wait for adding GRUB2 also to openSUSE.
* adding other OSes with GRUB1 should be supported but it depends on GRUB configuration in other OSes. if GRUB configuration is totally different (different names of configuration files or different location of options etc.) from SUSE GRUB configuration. it is not added.
* you are right there missing dual-boot configuration in yast2-bootloader.
At least, the installer should detect there is another system installed somewhere, and instead of by default installing in the MBR (wich will, for sure, already be in use), in that situation should at least askt the user before doing that, and offering a number of alternatives, like not touching mbr and installing grub in /boot, with one key. Nowdays we have to manually change a number of options for boot not to be destroyed. My current test machine has windows 7, oS 11.2 and oS 11.3. If I let the installer run its way, boot is destroyed. I'm experienced to know how to twidle the installer to get it done correctly, but it should be easier, and the default should be "don't destroy working boot". If the installed can't decide, then don't decide. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwNSi4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WD/ACdEquYC+2D8N9kN6dNmIOYKtct 36cAn30LsnguJdW2bx6Y8cs/GuRa2ktB =Ah6b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org