jdd-gmane wrote:
Le 09/12/2009 11:16, Rodney Baker a écrit :
booting from a primary partition or booting from an extended partition (which, remember, is a virtual partition with a partition number above 5).
no. partitions with number 5 and up are logical partitions. extended is the container for logicals and can be 1-4 (it's a primary one)
jdd
True for MSDOS Disklabel, not GPT. The OP is right though. I completely understand how grub (and lilo) works, yet I do not know what will result from various yast bootloader choices. After lots of methodical trial & error just for the purposes of mapping that out, still some things are unpredictable by me. And that is a problem because with a thing like this the details are everything. So I don't bother to use it anymore. I always have to configure grub completely manually during install, or sometimes after install by booting the installer only to use it's shell to manually mount and chroot. The one thing that yast gets right for me so far is that kernel updates have so far managed never to break the grub config that I have previously configured manually. I never quite trust it so after any updates I go look over the boot-related files myself before rebooting, but so far they haven't needed correcting, for a wonder. ("so far" == from 9.1 to current) -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org