-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-03-01 at 14:20 -0000, Robert W Best wrote:
No, but the openSUSE Documentation does, in section 12.1. ... Which exact manual and version are you referring to?
SuSE 10.3 KDE / K Menu / KDE Help Center / openSUSE Documentation Reference - III System - 12.1 The Linux Boot Process
I use GNome, and the "khelpcenter" (version 3.93.00) shows a blank, complains of no index, asks: build one? fails ans hangs, asks again. You mean this: /usr/share/doc/manual/opensuse-manual_en/manual/cha.boot.html#sec.boot.proc Boot Loader. The first physical 512-byte data sector of the first hard disk is loaded into the main memory and the boot loader that resides at the beginning of this sector takes over. The commands executed by the boot loader determine the remaining part of the boot process. Therefore, the first 512 bytes on the first hard disk are referred to as the Master Boot Record (MBR). The boot loader then passes control to the actual operating system, in this case, the Linux kernel. More information about GRUB, the Linux boot loader, can be found in Chapter 13, The Boot Loader. Well... while this is true, it is confusing if it leads you to think that the MBR is only the one from the first disk. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHyaSMtTMYHG2NR9URAsk9AJ9ZeN0FWh/LhnN8clss7MPeA+J4egCcCSh2 dEmOqZyrEwhCjIDRFgfGnZs= =Sjr5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org