Hello SuSE people, Running 10.3 and Win98 on separate hard drives - dual boot. When I installed 10.3 on the newly added hard drive I just let Grub install itself where it wanted to. i assume to the MBR of the first drive (Windoze) Don't know how to tell for sure. Anyway, that first drive is failing and I want to replace the drive. windoze is going and 11.0 will go on it. In th meantime I want to move the bootloader to the second drive where 10.3 is running. Can I just let Yast do that for me and trust I will be able to boot again? Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bob S wrote:
Anyway, that first drive is failing and I want to replace the drive. windoze is going and 11.0 will go on it. In th meantime I want to move the bootloader to the second drive where 10.3 is running.
probably simpler to change the drive, install 11 on it and chance is than yast detect the 10.3 and install an entry in grub for it jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:13 AM, jdd sur free
probably simpler to change the drive, install 11 on it and chance is than yast detect the 10.3 and install an entry in grub for it jdd
Even if it does not, you can copy the appropriate section from your current /boot/grub/menu.lst file. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 27 June 2008 03:13:13 am jdd sur free wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Anyway, that first drive is failing and I want to replace the drive. windoze is going and 11.0 will go on it. In th meantime I want to move the bootloader to the second drive where 10.3 is running.
probably simpler to change the drive, install 11 on it and chance is than yast detect the 10.3 and install an entry in grub for it
Thanks jdd, Would that give me a separate "boot" for 10.3 and 11.0? Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 28 June 2008 02:06:08 am jdd sur free wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Would that give me a separate "boot" for 10.3 and 11.0?
separate entry in the boot menu, yes
No, no, a separate boot sector for each OS. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bob S a écrit :
On Saturday 28 June 2008 02:06:08 am jdd sur free wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Would that give me a separate "boot" for 10.3 and 11.0? separate entry in the boot menu, yes
No, no, a separate boot sector for each OS.
yes, it can. simply use the root partition, but one must think to do this at install time, yast don't anymore ask you what you want (for some time now), so I mostly forget to do this :-( of course you need at least one "master" grub. If you don't have vista anywhere, a standard (in the linux sense) mbr is enough (search the wiki, all is writtent there jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Saturday 28 June 2008 02:06:08 am jdd sur free wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Would that give me a separate "boot" for 10.3 and 11.0? separate entry in the boot menu, yes
No, no, a separate boot sector for each OS.
Hi, I have a computer that I boot 10 different linux systems on. I set a data only grub in one partition to boot each individual distro's grub which I install in root. Here is a link to a writeup from the guy who came up with the system. http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=147959 Hope this helps. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Mark Misulich a écrit :
I have a computer that I boot 10 different linux systems on. I set a data only grub in one partition to boot each individual distro's grub which I install in root. Here is a link to a writeup from the guy who came up with the system.
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=147959
yes, no need to have 100+ linux to start. The only system that gave me probles is Vista as it seems than any change to the boot mbr stops vista from booting, but for any other system, easy jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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