Re: SuSE under Boot Manager?, part II

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 01/16/04

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    In <PIfNb.126679$Tz1.38360@news.chello.at>, on 01/14/2004
       at 06:17 PM, Klaus Staedtler <gibtsnet@gibstnet.net> said:

    >Suse uses since long GRUB, it can boot Boot Manager too, and by
    >default (if you don't take care) it is installed in the MBR.

    Easy to override, and easy to undo. The one that I object[1] to is PQ
    PM, which changes partition types with no notice.

    >Suse uses since long GRUB, it can boot Boot Manager too, and by
    >default (if you don't take care) it is installed in the MBR. I
    >clearly prefer to have Boot Manager to boot GRUB

    OTOH, BM can handle only 4 systems.

    [1] Since I own a copy of GTU, I was able to put it back. I wasn't a
        happy camper, but it was just a nuisance. It would have been far
        worse for someone without a sector editor. 

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