On Friday 26 October 2007 04:39:28 am Clive Rogers wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > On Friday 26 October 2007 01:32:47 Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 23:02 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: > > >> It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD > > <snip> > > > Also, if his machine can boot from the usb, I think you could install > > grub there. > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Carlos E. R. > > Do you mean he can boot his partition from a USB key ? > I will google this and have an look see. > Thanks for the heads up on this one.
Clive, what is the problem with my explanation? Since 10.2 openSUSE is using generic bootloader that will boot any partition marked bootable independent of installed operating system. Install grub in boot sector of openSUSE partition and using console program cfdisk make it active, it is called 'bootable' in cfdisk. MBR of hard disk will stay as is. Limitation to this is that bootable can be only primary partition, not logical as generic bootloader is looking in partition table that has only 4 entries for primary partitions. YaST Partitioner for now lacks ability to change bootable/active flag so you have to use external program (cfdisk) to change it. If your friend decide not to use Linux all you have to do is to boot in openSUSE and run cfdisk again and mark windows partition as bootable and openSUSE will disappear, while it will be possible to boot it from CD or USB stick. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
