John Andersen composed on 2015-01-08 04:43 (UTC-0500):
All of this (Pointless IMHO) effort is wasted to get dual boot to work when dual boot is hardly a worthwhile thing to have any more. Its at best a miserable solution even after your get it working perfectly.
I don't dual boot anything. I multiboot virtually everything. Nobody can unconditionally troubleshoot and do follow up to bug reports about hardware without using the hardware involved, or for software the same software configuration, including OS. Many things can be virtualized, but not everything.
Use a VM for pete sake, or buy another drive, and the mounting carrier for your laptop.
VMs induce people to put everything on one big filesystem. There's a lot more to loose at once that way, and IMO more troublesome to backup and restore, inducing not doing it at all. I attribute many of the bugs we see in modern software to virtualization, laziness from the apparent simplicity of using VMs, and consequent failure to test on a reasonably wide variety of actual hardware. I have no material use for VMs even on the machines that support them in hardware. What they can't do is what I need, and what they can do I don't need. Multiboot may be old school, but it still provides utility without equal. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org