Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Tuesday 2008-03-04 at 07:38 -0700, Wendell Nichols wrote:

> Hmm this is interesting.  I maintain a separate bootable windoze image
> on my laptop which I also run under vmware.  In vmware I have to use the
> whole physical disk as the vmware disk so that the init loader and
> bootup stuff works.  That exposes me to accidentally booting linux under
> linux and wrecking my filesystems.  However if the vmware bios could be
> made to boot a different partition than the native linux boot this
> exposure would disappear.  Anyone have ideas about that?

An idea (not tested):

Create a boot manager in another disk, which can be virtual. This boot 
manager should be responsible of booting the partition you need.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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