On Sat January 27 2007 18:50, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: > Hmm? So I should manually change these settings? I was almost confident > about the partitions because sda7 (swap), sda8 (root), and sda9 (home) > was correct as far as where they were on the drive itself.
My point is this: The YaST bootloader configuration module is just scripting designed to inspect and *hopefully* correctly identify the purpose and location for each drive and partition that it "sees". When it inspects a simple environment, as in 0 or a single already installed operating system, it generally seems to deduce and write things correctly. However, when it inspects more complex arrangements (like the time I had 9.3, 10.0, 10.1, Win98SE and XP installed) it seems to be more vulnerable to mapping some of the partitions incorrectly. I've never seen it write incorrect directories or paths, just propose to write incorrect drive and/or partition numbers. I've learned it is a good idea to **always** double-check it's work before committing a proposed configuration to disk. Keep in mind that YaST modules are excellent and very helpful GUI "front-end" tools, but they aren't 'deeply sophisticated' or omnipotent. Sometimes the human must intervene! ;-) regards, Carl Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
