[opensuse] Where to place boot record on "dual boot" linuxes
I have 11.4 as my primary Linux and I want to install 12.2 beta 1 for testing. I'm thinking that the boot should be written to the MBR ? or not ? TIA, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Found the answer by an extensive Google search. On 06/01/2012 11:36 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
I have 11.4 as my primary Linux and I want to install 12.2 beta 1 for testing.
I'm thinking that the boot should be written to the MBR ? or not ?
TIA, Duaine
-- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Saturday, June 02, 2012 12:27:08 AM Duaine Hechler wrote:
Found the answer by an extensive Google search.
On 06/01/2012 11:36 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
I have 11.4 as my primary Linux and I want to install 12.2 beta 1 for testing.
I'm thinking that the boot should be written to the MBR ? or not ?
TIA, Duaine
Could you give more details? -- Linux User 183145 using KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 12.1 (i586) Kernel: 3.4.0-25-default KDE Development Platform: 4.8.3 (4.8.3) "release 504") 12:39pm up 17:27, 3 users, load average: 1.09, 1.38, 1.47 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:36:08 -0500
Duaine Hechler
I have 11.4 as my primary Linux and I want to install 12.2 beta 1 for testing.
I'm thinking that the boot should be written to the MBR ? or not ?
TIA, Duaine
I would recommend putting it in a separate /boot partition. Then when you install 12.2-β1 you can leave that partition unformatted, preserving the 11.4 files. One warning, 12.2 does not tend to find other installations except windows so be sure to backup the menu.lst with the 11.4 stanzas or it will get over-written. That is for legacy grub, don't know about grub2. Tom -- “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pine Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.1x86_64 openSUSE 12.2x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.8.1, FF 10.0 claws-mail 3.8.0 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2012/06/02 00:27 (GMT-0500) Duaine Hechler composed:
Duaine Hechler wrote:
I have 11.4 as my primary Linux and I want to install 12.2 beta 1 for testing.
I'm thinking that the boot should be written to the MBR ? or not ?
Found the answer by an extensive Google search.
Did the Google results include http://old-en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub#How_does_a_PC_boot_.2F_How_can_I_set_up... ? What was your conclusion? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 06/02/2012 12:39 AM, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Saturday, June 02, 2012 12:27:08 AM Duaine Hechler wrote:
Found the answer by an extensive Google search.
On 06/01/2012 11:36 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
I have 11.4 as my primary Linux and I want to install 12.2 beta 1 for testing.
I'm thinking that the boot should be written to the MBR ? or not ?
TIA, Duaine Could you give more details?
At least from what I read (a) setup version 11.4 boot from MBR and (b) make the newly installed test version boot from that root partition with chainloader. Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Saturday, June 02, 2012 02:11:38 AM Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/06/02 00:27 (GMT-0500) Duaine Hechler composed:
Duaine Hechler wrote:
I have 11.4 as my primary Linux and I want to install 12.2 beta 1 for testing.
I'm thinking that the boot should be written to the MBR ? or not ?
Found the answer by an extensive Google search.
Did the Google results include http://old-en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub#How_does_a_PC_boot_.2F_How_can_I_ set_up_a_working_GRUB.3F ?
What was your conclusion?
Felix, An interesting site which I have now studied several times. Follow your responses about dual boot and multiple boot with interest. But I have a multiple boot which works but is quit unorganized. I have never made a separate /boot and always used the mbr from the first HD. If I want to remove the grub from the MBR of my first disk, it is easy. Fdisk/ Cfdisk. Make the mbr active. But then? Where do you place the grub? From which openSUSE? With every update, Yast writes something to the bootloader from the owner of the grub. Can their multiple owners? I have e.g. KDE4, LXDE (both12.1)and 12.2M3 apart from DrDos, Puppy and Windows XP and no idea how to cleanup my system. How do you manage your multiple system? All with chainloader? How could/would the grub2 be included/used? -- Linux User 183145 using KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 12.1 (i586) Kernel: 3.4.0-25-default KDE Development Platform: 4.8.3 (4.8.3) "release 504") 15:26pm up 20:15, 3 users, load average: 1.41, 0.96, 0.86 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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