On 7/27/2010 5:11 AM, pistazienfresser (see profile) wrote:
On 27/07/10 03:45, Edward Diener wrote:
I am running OS 11.3 and I want to create a boot CD so that if my boot partition is moved I can still boot from the boot CD and re-initialize grub again. Is there some easy to use utility which will enable me to do this ?
Is there not still the option to repair the bootloader on the openSUSE 11.3 DVD?
No, I have never seen that, but it would really be good of OpenSUSE, and other Linux installations, to add such effective functionlity. As an aside I have never understood why Linux is so resistant to making things easier for the end-user, as if being difficult is somehow good for a user. OpenSUSE has done a very good job, in general, of seeking to make things easier for the end-user so maybe they will add such a useful option in the future. One can boot into a rescue login, but then one gets only the functionality on the 11.3 DVD itself. Then one has to mount filesystems and all the rest before re-installing grub.
Till 11.2 and before I used GRUB2 form Ubuntu I that just worked for me.
Or try some of the five other possibilities listed there (I was just content with the repair option): http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susebootfive.html ?
I will look at the first option there since I went into the rescue system immediately to see how that worked. Obviously booting into the installation on hard disk, where everything is installed and mounted properly, makes it much easier to re-initialize grub in the boot partition. The other options, other than the last of SGD, are not really clearly explained at all. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org