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["Michael Mientus" <michael.mientus@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to support this feature, but I have never needed to use it.
When I couldn't boot my openSuSE system I erased everything and
created a partitioning/booting scheme that would work no matter what
happened to openSuSE.

I have 2GB for Zenwalk,
20GB for openSuSE 10.3,
20GB for a backup of openSuSE 10.3,
20GB for a new distro (unused), and
20GB for its backup.

When I installed openSuSE for a second time, I choose the "no
bootloader" option. Then I went into Zenwalk, which I use as a command
post, to add openSuSE to its bootloader LILO. I had a few problems
with LILO at first, but eventually through trial and error and through
talking to the LILO maintainer I was able to learn LILO and boot
openSuSE. So now no matter what openSuSE does to itself I have a
working backup of it, and I have a way to boot it. Plus I always have
Zenwalk if I need a connection to the Internet.

Regards,
Mike
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