On 2008/06/25 22:03 (GMT+0200) jdd sur free apparently typed:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/06/25 20:31 (GMT+0200) jdd apparently typed:
reinstalling windows wipes any other OS
Popular fallacy. Not truth. It will replace Grub on MBR,
of course this is what I mean. If Linux was deleted, I couldn't boot the installed system...
but usually there's no good reason for it to be there in the first place.
no other good way,
I know different, and you could too if you had bothered to read the URL previously provided. So, here it is again: http://fm.no-ip.com/install-doz-after.html Linux is perfectly capable of booting without Grub being installed to the MBR, or Grub being situated on an active partition. Putting Grub on the MBR is only doing the same thing people complain about a Windoz installer doing, changing the MBR code. It's just not necessary for either to have non-generic code in the MBR in order to boot. In cases where it seems necessary, it's just a matter of misconfiguration, or poor planning, or a brain dead installation program.
if you have XP, vista and openSUSE (vista is asking for a boot flag when XP don't)
SUSE users are not the only people who have tried, and failed or succeeded, to get a functional multiboot of Vista, XP, Linux and/or others. I haven't tried Vista yet, because I'm not going to buy it just to see how to get it to multiboot, nor would I choose to provide the minimum 20G of installation space it requires when anything else requires only half that or much less. However, I have it on good authority that having all three of XP, Vista & Linux in multiboot is not a real problem, if you partition 100% in advance of installing any OS (or bootloader) on any partition. Just don't expect the XP installer to behave nicely if you put Grub on the MBR or the first primary. I have no reason to think Vista's boot loader is any less capable of chainloading to Linux than XP has been perfectly capable of doing for many years. So, it doesn't matter which partition is active, as long as whichever is has been properly configured to chainload anywhere else it needs to.
- I tried and even wrote a page for the wiki on this subject...
ISTR seeing it when you first announced it, but don't know if it still exists or if so where to look for it now. -- "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?" Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org