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[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat January 27 2007 18:50, Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
> Hmm? So I should manually change these settings?  I was almost confident
> about the partitions because sda7 (swap), sda8 (root), and sda9 (home)
> was correct as far as where they were on the drive itself.

My point is this: The YaST bootloader configuration module is just scripting 
designed to inspect and *hopefully* correctly identify the purpose and 
location for each drive and partition that it "sees".

When it inspects a simple environment, as in 0 or a single already installed 
operating system, it generally seems to deduce and write things correctly. 
However, when it inspects more complex arrangements (like the time I had 9.3, 
10.0, 10.1, Win98SE and XP installed) it seems to be more vulnerable to 
mapping some of the partitions incorrectly.

I've never seen it write incorrect directories or paths, just propose to write 
incorrect drive and/or partition numbers. I've learned it is a good idea to 
**always** double-check it's work before committing a proposed configuration 
to disk.

Keep in mind that YaST modules are excellent and very helpful GUI "front-end" 
tools, but they aren't 'deeply sophisticated' or omnipotent. Sometimes the 
human must intervene! ;-)

regards,

Carl

Carl
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