Re: [opensuse-factory] Anyone dualbooting 12.1 and 12.2?

On 06/06/2012 03:48 AM, Michael Chang wrote:

2012/6/2 Felix Miata:

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On 2012/06/01 18:15 (GMT+0200) Martin Schlander composed:

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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.

One possibility is the boot sector is empty, due to FC's grub2 not support installing to partition boot sector?

Would you point me to those list? I'm quite interested. :)

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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.

I could tell that the transition from legacy grub to grub2 is very conservative. We don't drop any scenario to make grub2 work .. instead we try to keep as much as possible we offered for legacy grub.

So openSUSE don't force you to follow upstream to install on MBR, you still follow the same proposed settings for legacy Grub and they work transparently for Grub2. You are also free to change setting .. although they are not guarantee to always work. :)

The purpose of the transition is not to have you disappoint to drop your scenarios you used to with legacy grub. What we want is a living upstream, better support for file systems/multi-path and a better configuration systems and so on .. those won't conflict with the usability.

So if you found anything deficiency for Gurb2 that legacy Grub could offer, please feel free to file a bug. :)

Grub1 never detected the Recovery Mode in neither version of openSUSE. That is when I had 11.4 on Primary and 12.1 on Extended. However, when I had 12.1 on Primary and 12.2 Beta 1 on Extended. When I disabled the images in Beta 1 ----- >> I ran grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg on Beta 1. Grub2 detected my Grub1 entries including my 12.1 Recovery Mode. 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