Vince L wrote:
Whatever. I think there is some opaqueness about that description. BIOS needs to boot something before even looking at your /boot partition, ie it needs some sort of MBR. And even if you have a mainboard which doesn't require a boot record from a primary, what you say needs qualifying for the type of main board. In the OP's situation, unless factor XX is present, he cannot just ditch his /boot partition and expect to boot up from a non primary /.
The master boot record is outside of primary, extended or logical partitions. In Linux, it points to code that can reside on any partition, either primary or logical. As far as I know, only Windows requires at least part of the OS to reside on C:. In OS/2, while the boot manager had to be on a primary partition, once it was loaded, the OS could be anywhere, other than Windows, which still had it's limitations. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org