http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c2 --- Comment #2 from Thies Thate <m.j.thate@tele2.nl> 2010-07-12 10:46:04 UTC --- I think my knowledge is not enough to give an exact answer. But the situation is as follows: The size of the harddisk is 640GB I use the follwing primary partitions: /dev/sda 596.17 GB WDC-WD6400AAKS-7 /dev/sda1 97.65 GB HPFS/NTFS NTFS for Windows Vista /dev/sda2 996.22 MB Linux swap /dev/sda3 97.65 GB Linux native Ext4 for Mandriva 2010.1 /dev/sda4 100.00 GB Linux native Ext4 / for openSUSE 11.3 I installed openSUSE 11.3 as last distro the menu.lst is ############### # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on zo jul 11 21:01:57 CEST 2010 # THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader # Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader default 0 timeout 8 ##YaST - generic_mbr gfxmenu (hd0,3)/boot/message ##YaST - activate ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34-12 root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6400AAKS-75A7B2_WD-WMASY7572612-part4 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6400AAKS-75A7B2_WD-WMASY7572612-part2 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x346 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34-12-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34-12 root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6400AAKS-75A7B2_WD-WMASY7572612-part4 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x346 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34-12-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux (/dev/sda3)### title linux (/dev/sda3) root (hd0,2) configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Diskette rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader +1 ############### Mandriva has been installed at sda3 but is not recognized as Mandriva. ############### I think, because all partitions are smaller than 128GB the /boot partition is always below 128GB. Or is this taken relatif with regard to the mbr (under windows) By the way, during installation I can choose many possibilities for booting. I always use the normal MBR. But that is not the standard advice openSUSE gives. I did not yet studied mij BIOS. If that is necessary I'll send more information. Regards, Thies ;] (In reply to comment #1)
Thies, is your /boot partition below 128GB or not?
It is possible that this limit is void, it is possible that it is not. It depends on your BIOS, YaST cannot know which BIOS does support booting from
128GB disks and which don't.
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