On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Wednesday 2007-04-04 at 16:49 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > It's absolutely ridiculous that a boot manager should share its secrets > > > over two drives. This is an excellent example of why not. > > > > Who configured it that way? > > Posibly grub itself is in the first drive only, but as linux is in the > second, the /boot dir is in the second. > > Just a guess. > > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R.
To make it simpler: If one has a disk with windoze on, leave that disk alone. If one wants to install linucs on another disk, BEFORE one starts said installation, he/she/it should booot into the computer bios and make drive 2 the boot drive. Then grub will install in drive 2, same drive as da linucs:) Grub would still be able to boot the windoze partition. If the linucs drive gets hosed, option 1 is to try to boot the linucs partition first, you can do that in a roundabout way if you start a new install and abort it, then you get a choice if you want to boot an existing installed os; OR, you can say good bue to linucs, go to your bios boot setup and reset drive 1 as the "boot" drive, that would boot you straight into your old windoze... Of course you should have known that before you installed linucs, so at this point it might be a moot point. but you should still be able to access either partition with a bootable cd and a couple of options. The biggest question for me here is why does the linucs boot cd hide the "boot to an installed system" option so hard. I have always wondered about that and i wish the suse boyz and gals change it.... it really belongs to the very first boot disk screen, right there with ttthe other startup options... d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
