-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-03-20 at 18:30 +0100, Oddball wrote:
What generic bootloader? Grub isn't the generic bootloader? In ghost manual explicitly explained: does not work with grub... I contacted symantec about that this afternoon in a live chat: no bootloader supported, they give me a refund for the programm, because i cannot use it with dual, triple or quadruple boot.
No, grub is not a generic bootloader. A GB is one that simply looks which of the primary partitions is marked bootable, and boots that one, no questions asked, no menu, no options. The Dos/Windows partitioner installs just that, and Ghost I suppose does the same. YaST can also install one. Ghost is compatible, it just doesn't know about grub. You have to handle that part manually. The trick is to install grub in any primary partition; the one that contains /boot, mark that "bootable", and unmark the windows partition. Ie, only one is marked bootable; /boot can be either a separate partition or a directory inside /. Thus, the GB sees a partition (only one) marked bootable, loads the boot code, and boots that - and it happens to be grub. Grub starts, presents the menu, and you choose what OS to boot. How to disable grub? Simply mark the windows partition as bootable, and unmark the linux one. What happens if windows disables grub? Then redo the partition marks, using any partitioner tool you can use. Ie, mark linux as bootable. How to uninstall grub? As this usually means you do not want linux, simply format its partition (and mark windows as bootable). Or, install another bootloader on top (like lilo). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknEJTMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XWUACfZ4rXPLI3Kds+0P0luTJNeL69 L+cAoJer2U7UR0BsHihgU1MITwmKE1wZ =XgWi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org