On Sunday 06 June 2010 06:52:29 C wrote:
Now, we get either nothing at all in Grub for other OSes, or a chain loading mess of multiple Grubs... unless you go in and manually twiddle and tweak your Grub menus.
The "mess" of multiple boot menus is actually the only fair solution with reasonable maintenance and development cost. There is grub, grub2, lilo, BSD, Windows and any other OS specific boot loader that I have no idea it exists. Combine that with all kernel names and versions, initrd names and versions, default disk layouts, default configurations and user customizations (and errors). Number of combinations that boot loader installer has to handle grows very fast. Making all of them to appear in the openSUSE grub correctly is not always possible, and even when it is, it can be very complicated and error prone process, or better to say guesswork of "his masters mind". The only problem with openSUSE approach is that not every OS (distro) is configured to do the same; take care to boot itself correctly, and let the rest boot trough their own boot loaders, making users confused which approach is correct. -- Regards Rajko, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org