On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:09:28 Marco Calistri wrote:
... Hi Michael,
Your instructions are looking clear and inviting to give it a try, but I am a bit worry to broke my 12.2 which I upgraded by "zypper dup" and that works perfectly with GRUB.
Currently I boot a dual OS system: Windows7 which was the default install and openSUSE which few days ago was 12.1 (now is 12.2).
Then I really don't know if I can "blindly repeat" your steps and be safe to get a functioning boot.
Could you please provide your thoughts on it?
Thanks.
Cheers, If you are not prepared to dig yourself out, or did not want to have to install from scratch, it might pay to wait/ask for some more authoritative advice. If I had non-Linux OS's installed, I'd probably be more cautious.
Like you I was extremely nervous about changing an already working boot loader setup. It's difficult to say whether some hardware/OS/config combo might trip things up. I only made the change because I was prepared to spend a day or so figuring out how to fix things if they went wrong. I also have other Linux boxes and tablets that I can use to help me fix things, so I felt I would be able to dig myself out. All I can say is that I've used yast2 boot loader configurator multiple times on my system since upgrading to 12.2: ASUS M5A97EVO, AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T, Nvidia GT 240 (proprietary driver 304.43), first drive OCZ-VERTEX3 SSD (root), second drive seagate ST2000DM001. I duel boot 12.2 on SSD and 12.1 on HD as a backup. I experimented with grub2 in a VirtualBox before I attempted anything for real (that's not really testing my hardware, just helping me understand a bit about yast2 boot loader configuration). I've noticed I still getting a non fatal error: error: file `/boot/grub2/locale/en.mo.gz not found, so I haven't solved the mo error problem, just changed it, but at least it's not fatal - if I blink I don't see it (I must have blinked when I tested the previous fix) - best to make a movie and play it back frame by frame. Cheers, Michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org