-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-10-11 12:33, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
В Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:08:17 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> пишет:
Yes, I know that this is actually possible, but it is something of a trick. Does openSUSE support that combination?
Of course. That's why it warns you about missing bios_grub - because grub2 code that gets installed in MBR (or better - the very first sector) knows how to load core.img which gets written into this partition.
Ah.
That was in response "I could change active OS by setting active partition flag". Booting with grub2 does not work this way - it writes core.img into bios_grub partition and stores absolute disk location in code that is written in MBR (first sector). It does *not* search for partition with specific flag.
Ah! I understand now. *:-) (light bulb!) What is lacking is the equivalent of the "generic boot mbr code" that would search for the active partition and boot it. Someone could write such a sector, which could go to his own bios_generic_partition, which could act as a multiboot menu or boot whatever is marked active. Interesting. Or, I could install a smallish Linux with grub in the /mbr/, and this one act as multiboot menu (which is something I have done with grub1 in the past, for multiboot on logical partitions). Understood. Thanks. (the remaining problem is safely handling hibernation and restore of the proper "one").
You can assume that grub2 is GPT-aware :)
Yes, I knew that. But /how/, it is confusing. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQ5EKwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UxLQCfZeOIK3WQGm/zfoUxn1oJd/fy sHsAnjUM5Nqa/XiT43ob2sb+WWMEfacN =N8Zm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org