On 2012/05/27 19:35 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
http://old-en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub#How_does_a_PC_boot_.2F_How_can_I_set_up...
Well, there you are. How things have changed over the past 10 years.
BTW, which version of XP are you talking about in your article? If it is the original XP and you need to apply SP1, and following, you need to have /C drive, the boot partition, of at least 500MB otherwise the SP1, say, upgrade shows you the 2 finger salute :-) .
I don't remember what I used when I first wrote it in 2006, but IIRC that was long after SP2 for legitimate use had superceded SP1. Since SP3 was released I've used an original updated to SP3+ via nLite. A plain original media requires a driver disk to install on SATA systems, while SP1 or newer media already have SATA support. I remember once needing to up the C: size to around 60MB, but not why, or whether it might have been Vista that made that dumb demand. Maybe the 500MB requirement you ran into is related to installing on a disk bigger than the 28 bit LBA limit, which the original media can't do if using allocated space above that line. I rarely put any OS partition above the LBA28 threshold, normally reserving that space for data only partitions. -- "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