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Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade
- From: "Stan Goodman" <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:11:28 +0200
- Message-id: <20071229191103.4AF2325BE4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
** Reply to message from "Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> on Sat, 29 Dec 2007
12:48:55 -0600
I don't know what to make of this. On my system, three partitions are marked as
"Bootable":
OS/2,
The failed-updated v10.2 that didn't turn into v10.3, and
The newly installed v10.3 maintenance partition.
"Bootable" is a synonym for "is listed in Boot Manager". If I remove the
"Bootable" label from any of the three bootable partitions, that partition
would no longer be accessible through Boot Manager.
This restriction was _not_ present in v10.2 (when I had two partitions listed
as "Bootable". If it exists now, it is an innovation of v10.3.
The only unique lable for a partition is "Startable"; Boot Manager is
"Startable", because it is supposed to be what a loading system starts. What
seems to have happened now is that v10.3 has interposed its own boot manager
before Boot Manager. This is dictatorial; it's something one might expect from
Microsoft. There has to be a way around that.
--
Stan Goodman
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12:48:55 -0600
On Saturday 29 December 2007 12:27:24 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
When I undo that, and get the boot sequence right, I will go ahead to the
original problem.
Now is generic boot code in MBR, and openSUSE maintenace partition is marked
as bootable. That is why it jumps direct to boot sector of maintenance
partition. This is new feature since 10.2 (so far I recall) and makes change
of boot menu as simple as marking partition as bootable using any fdisk
program. With generic boot sector only one partition should be marked as
bootable.
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Regards,
Rajko
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I don't know what to make of this. On my system, three partitions are marked as
"Bootable":
OS/2,
The failed-updated v10.2 that didn't turn into v10.3, and
The newly installed v10.3 maintenance partition.
"Bootable" is a synonym for "is listed in Boot Manager". If I remove the
"Bootable" label from any of the three bootable partitions, that partition
would no longer be accessible through Boot Manager.
This restriction was _not_ present in v10.2 (when I had two partitions listed
as "Bootable". If it exists now, it is an innovation of v10.3.
The only unique lable for a partition is "Startable"; Boot Manager is
"Startable", because it is supposed to be what a loading system starts. What
seems to have happened now is that v10.3 has interposed its own boot manager
before Boot Manager. This is dictatorial; it's something one might expect from
Microsoft. There has to be a way around that.
--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
"And then We said to the Children of Israel: 'Dwell securely in the Promised
Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, We will gather you together
from your exiles.'" -- The Prophet Mohammad, in The Quran, Sura 17:104, The
Night Journey, giving the authoritative Islamic view of the Jewish connection
with the Land of Israel, to which not one Muslim in a million subscribes.
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