On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 16:10 -0400, Edward Diener wrote:
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.
It has been in the install media for many releases. You can boot to repair the system. There you get a menu for what to repair. Boot loader is one of them. All in a warm'n'fuzzy GUI. I have used this many times. It checks and repairs a surprisingly large number of things. I even found it useful when moving a disk from one system to another and needed the initrd updated for the new hardware.
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.
You are correct generally. But in this case, it may be more a matter of Linux keeping quite about things. openSUSE have a great fully automatic repair option in the install medium.
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.
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