Re: [opensuse-factory] replacement for master-boot-code

On 3/21/19 10:13 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 3:26 PM Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:

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According the information provided with the del req for master-boot- code (which, by the way was broken for a long time - see http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125307 )

the replacement is to use

/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin

as provided by syslinux instead of the .mbr provided by m-b-c.

What does this mean for the typical user? master-boot-code is indeed gone. My system boots okay. So I guess all is okay. It just sounds like an important thing.

The bug report shown above states that the deleted package has not been used for 5 years. You will not see any change, just as I have not, and I always boot from a partition, not the master boot record, which contains generic code. Also, the one system of mine that dual-boots Windows and Tumbleweed also works. Of course, it was necessary to install Windows first, but so far, no updates have broken it. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org