On Mon, Oct 29 11:59:31 AM Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2012-10-29 08:28, Oddball wrote:
I was not aware about that. So buying openSUSE was not all bad... So you use their multibooter instead of grub(2), or only if you install after Linux?
In this laptop I use grub. In a computer I set up for other people I used Windows booter, because Windows is their principal os and this way service packs do not complain. Grub has to be installed anyway, but away in a partition, not in MBR.
And the Windows boot manager can handle logical partitions now, too (actually, since Vista). It still uses the DOS-based MBR code looking for a primary partition where its boot database must reside, but the OS/boot manager (the equiv to grub's stage2) can be on another/any partition. IMO the downside is MS very arcane and unfriendly setup/config tools, which is why I used Neosmart's free EasyBCD. I don't do this for my own machines, but I do recommend it for users for whom Windows is their primary OS. Weird or unfriendly partition setups are not due to anything in Windows in particular, these are decisions made by the hardware oem. And taking all 4 primaries is one of the worst examples. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org