2008/12/22 Carlos E. R.
On Monday, 2008-12-22 at 13:33 -0000, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2008/12/22 Carlos E. R.
: Perhaps, but before going that step I wanted to know more. I'd like to know how s2disk does the trick and undo it - and I seriously doubt that s2disk touches the boot record, that's something delicate to do.
The clean way, is to invoke the boot loader, GRUB to do it. Then knowledge of boot loading is kept in one place.
Yes, but we have to know what grub command they used in order to undo it. I don't think they change the boot sector, that can damage other systems.
GRUB reads files in the /boot filesystem, so the logical place is a file in the /boot/grub directory. Such as the 'default' suggested. In my /boot/grub/default, I have '4'. There's an option to use "default saved" rather than a number in menu.list, so you can default to the last booted kernel. info:grub shows the manual in a Konqueror window. Other desktops should show info files to. So this is what I think is happening. You're probably not picking up the GRUB menu.list you expect, it's instant booting either the default or the only option. In the end I think you're going to have to install it, to use the menu.list that you want used and have checked. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org