On June 1, 2012 01:31:49 PM Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/06/01 18:15 (GMT+0200) Martin Schlander composed:
Has anyone tried installing 12.2 beta (using grub2) in dualboot with an existing 12.1 system (using legacy grub)?
I don't dual boot. Dual means exactly and only two. I multiboot, which covers every instance of more than one. :-)
I have more systems than I can keep track of with 11.4 and 12.1 and 12.2, besides earlier releases and other distros, and DOS, and OS/2, and Windows. But, I try not to let anything except *buntu install its own Grub2, and have only slipped up once, with Fedora 16 just two days ago. I never install any Grub to any MBR, ever.
None of my 12.2 installs from M1 up thru B1 have produced a will not boot result.
If yes, does it work right out of the box? Is it seamless? (like traditionally According to the mailing lists, not for everyone.
e.g. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2012-06/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-06/msg00008.html and a bunch of forum messages.
dualbooting multiple openSUSE versions all using legacy grub). Anything I should be aware of?
Fedora 15's Legacy Grub users cannot chainload from 15 to F16's or F17's Grub 2. I've yet to notice a parallel mention for openSUSE on the Factory or English lists.
I'd like to test 12.2 beta on my real hardware, by installing it on my test partition. But I'm scared of being left unable to boot my 12.1 production system. So I'd be happy to hear if others have good (or bad) experiences with similar setups.
As long as you don't write Grub 2 to the MBR like its upstream devs insist is the only place it should be installed, you should always be able to reach anything else from Grub Legacy, even if that means manually from a Grub prompt. What you see in menu.lst stanzas can be typed at a Grub prompt to boot any kernel/initrd you know to look for, regardless what Grubs are installed anywhere. The only catch with Legacy might possibly be with an older BIOS you may want a /boot or / that's out of reach above the LBA28 access limit.
You do have the option in 12.2 to install Grub Legacy instead if you're truly afraid of losing production partition access.
I can dual boot with 12.1 with Grub1 and 12.2 Beta 1 with Grub2. Cheers! Roman ----------------------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Get it! Discover it! Share it! ----------------------------------------------------- http://linuxcounter.net/ #179293 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org