On 2010/06/06 14:33 (GMT+0300) Dotan Cohen composed:
I recently installed Open Suse 11.3 beta (build 0625) on a system with another Linux distro in another partition. Interestingly, Suse gave me no option for configuring dual boot, and the resulting boot menu showed only the Suse partition. I was able to install a custom Grub2 to get back into the other distro, but why doesn't Suse provide this?
[Based upon observation, not any official position I know about.] SUSE provides Grub 2 as an incompletely supported option. Its installer provides no Grub 2 support. Consequently, it is incapable of parsing Grub 2 config files used by other distros, and it is the parsing of menu.lst files from Grub 1 that enables other distros to be found. As a consequence, I believe the current subject misleading. What SUSE doesn't configure is other distros that depend on Grub 2, which is a much more complicated boot loader that most people don't need. Furthermore, dual boot is not a proper term for any system with more than two operating systems installed. Dual means exactly two. OTOH, multiboot is proper for most[1] systems with more than one operating system installed. [1] http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/partitioningindex.html IMO, unless the boot loader currently being installed is to be the system's primary boot loader, it has no business assuming stanzas for any other distro belong in its menu.lst. On my systems, a distro currently being installed never contains a primary boot loader, as I configure the primary bootloader prior to installing anything else whatsoever. -- "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 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org