Re: Next openSUSE

David Bolt wrote:

On Saturday 22 Aug 2009 03:10, Happy Oyster played with alphabet
spaghetti and left this on the plate:

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:07:12 +0100, David Bolt
<blacklist-me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ha! I've not had as many OSes installed on a single system. My laptop
had, at one time, WindowsXP, SUSE 10.1, and openSUSE 10.3. Then I
decided to perform an upgrade on it and now it's running 11.2 milestone
5 exclusively.

Suse and Suse is no problem. They use the same boot loader variables.
But Sabayon has stuff I never saw before.

Possibly still using LILO then. Most (all?) x86 based systems use grub
now. The only systems I know that still use LILO are on PPC based
systems.

It won't help in this specific case, but just as a general warning: just
that two systems use some version of the grub boot loader does not mean
that they can indeed be booted from the same grub installation without
chain loading. One infamous example is OpenSolaris 2008.11 if installed
with the root partition on a ZFS partition: grub as it comes with typical
linux distribution does not know how to handle ZFS and the grub version
used by SUN has issues with current ext filesystems (block size?).
Thankfully this was fixed with the current version of OpenSolaris. So I
can again boot the Ubuntu system that lives on that machine.

Günther
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