On 11/25/2011 04:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 11/25/2011 05:04 PM, g wrote: <> >> years back when i started playing with slackware linux, i still had oos >> installed and used an oos master boot loader. change that to 'master boot loader written for oos'. > Yeah, I recall similar incidents many years ago. I don't recall the > details, but wasn't there some HW/BIOS limitation (LBA?) ? i believe this is correct. oos was behind, as usual. > At least I haven't seen this happening for ca. a decade. everyone catches up with time. ;) >> my partitioning was similar to what you show, with a swap for each distrib, >> but only 1 master boot partition. > > This will only work if the distros sharing their boot partition are > similar enough and if these distros do not change their bootloaders. true, and i believe what grub2 is still in a development stage. another reason i hope fedora will stay with early grub until grub2 devs get it 'spit and polish' ready. > History tells, you can get away with such a set up for some time, but in > longer terms, one distro will trash the others' setup. aka, 'pecking order'. 8-D -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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