I thought that the M$ partition should be active and setup the PC to boot from a floppy in BIOS. Then the only info needed on the floppy is the info for the Linux partitions. That way when the PC boots, it will find the boot record on the floppy and try to boot from it, bypassing the bootstrap on the HDD.
That's right, more or less. A grub/lilo floppy only has the boot sector (well, grub may have a few things more, I'm unsure). But the makeactive line tells grub to make active that partition, and maybe clear it if you boot another system: and that is a problem, yast shouldn't do that in the case of booting from a floppy, or it should ask.
I agree that it should ask you about that. Not sure why they did not encorporate that feature. More or less? I thought that I hit the nail on the head. Oh well that isn't a issue. Hope that that helped in some way. -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, we just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."