Hi Rajko, On Friday 26 October 2007 18:36:25 Rajko M. wrote: <snip>
Clive,
what is the problem with my explanation?
Nothing as far as I can see. I had a look around the internet for my own benefit.
Since 10.2 openSUSE is using generic bootloader that will boot any partition marked bootable independent of installed operating system.
Right now my friend is trying out different versions of LInux so I am not sure which way he is going to jump.
Install grub in boot sector of openSUSE partition and using console program cfdisk make it active, it is called 'bootable' in cfdisk. MBR of hard disk will stay as is. Limitation to this is that bootable can be only primary partition, not logical as generic bootloader is looking in partition table that has only 4 entries for primary partitions.
This I e-mailed to him when you sent it too me.
YaST Partitioner for now lacks ability to change bootable/active flag so you have to use external program (cfdisk) to change it.
As you know most other distros don't use YaST so again a quick check would help him here and I could also e-mail him the pages I found.
If your friend decide not to use Linux all you have to do is to boot in openSUSE and run cfdisk again and mark windows partition as bootable and openSUSE will disappear, while it will be possible to boot it from CD or USB stick.
Yes, I sent him the information and he has not come back to me as yet so I don't know what he is doing. As far as I am concerned he should just install either lilo or grub on the mbr and be done with it. But, he will only boot into a linux distro which ever one he decides to use using the CD or as I wrote him the USB stick like you said in your mail. Some people just like to be different for the sake of it I think ;-) I am hopeful he will go with SuSE 10.3 but this will be his decision.
-- Regards, Rajko.
-- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org