I was recently directed to the not so old page
http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub
What should be may be set more visible is some changes versus the
usual (Lilo?) Linux way of configuring the boot system.
We where all told than Linux don't care about the way the BIOS or
Windows boot, specially ignore the "boot" flag of the partitions, when
Windows dont.
I think it should be usefull to write (and advertise) a page "booting
Linux" or "booting openSUSE" with the relevant part of the quoted page
(and other) - I can do if it's not already done.
As a brief summary:
* the MBR should be generic and YaST can write one (how??)
* GRUB should not be written in the MBR (this should be visible from
the YaST page!)
* GRUB (stage1) should be written in a primary partition. There is
always at least one on a disk, even if this one is the extended one.
* YaST makes a very good job as boot loader install
what must be said is that the latter is not completely true. I don't
know if it's a bug or a feature :-(, nor if this is still the case on
openSUSE 11, but when you are on the YaST page where you setup the
place where GRUB is installed, one can clic several options
altogether, but not all are written or the work is not clear :-()
specially, I spend some time now working on installs to an USB key.
I work to an other drive (not the first HDD) and don't want the first
HDD to take track of this install
the quoted page don't say really how GRUB manage this. This is
probably a BIOS problem, but I don't want to discuss this here and
now, it's OT on this thread
jdd
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