Felix Miata said the following on 04/22/2011 10:28 AM:
On 2011/04/22 09:59 (GMT-0400) Anton J Aylward composed:
This is a whole lot more complicated, I think, that the simple steps Felix proposed!
Actually the way I wrote so much and not in the form of an instruction list probably made it more confusing and look more complicated than it is, plus writing fstab where I was supposed to write menu.lst, and forgetting about setting sda1 active didn't help.
You're forgiven :-) No data was lost, a large part of that being die to the fact that all the real data was in LVM, which is pretty hard to scru-up een if you badly hose your partition table :-)
I do a lot of cloning and moving things around, so much that things become second nature, and thus easily forgotten in the process of documenting. Leaving http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/grub/grub_3.html#SEC9 out of my reply was bad too, but as you can see there, installing Grub really need not be that complicated a process.
Now that I know I agree. :-) -- Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org