Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1495 mails)

["ne..." <guhvies@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 16:19, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Carlos E. R.
> <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Wednesday, 2009-04-01 at 15:38 +0100, ne... wrote:
> >
> > > it should pick up the Windows installation automagically and add it to
> > > grub.
> > > The grub for oS11.1 should be installed in the disk's MBR as Carlos said.
> >
> > Hum... I forgot about Windows.
> >
> > When there is a windows install involved, it is safer to have a "generic
> > boot code" in the MBR, which is what windows installs. It is safer to
> > repair, even with windows tools.
> >
> > The trick is:
> >
> >  - have (or leave) generic code in the MBR
> >  - mark the Linux partition as bootable with almost any partitioner. Only
> >   one partition can be marked, and has to be a primary.
> >  - have each Linux install their boot code in their respective root
> >   partition.
> >
> > When the system is booted, the generic mbr code looks up on the partition
> > table for which partition is marked as bootable, and boots that one. This
> > partition will have grub there, so grub will run, and will ask what to boot,
> > Linux or windows.
> >
> > Now, suppose a windows tool "repairs" the system, marking the windows
> > partition as bootable. "My Linux is lost!". Calm... just use a windows
> > partitioner tool to mark again the partition where Linux is, and you are
> > back on business.
> >
> > However, if you had grub on the mbr, you have to use a Linux repair disk to
> > reinstall grub, which is more complicated: you need to issue some cryptic
> > grub commands >:-)
Since I really don't dual boot windows and linux, I wasn't aware of
that. I'll note
that down...

> Is having a small /boot partition out of favor now?
>
> I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread.  I still use one when I
> setup multiboot.  But I'm normally doing windows and one or two suse
> versions.  I have not ever installed Ubuntu or Fedora.
I thought that was only needed for really old bioses. I haven't done
this in ages.

ne...
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