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Then the +Summary pops up. + +It could be done before that, immediately after partitioning. +Perhaps if the advanced button were pressed? + +>>><i> Only once when +</I>>>><i> you install the distribution which you think will stay the longest +</I>and +>>><i> whos bootloader will go into MBR. After that you don't need it any +</I>>>><i> more because you will have to add new distributions manually to the +</I>>>><i> list. +</I>>><i> You can use drakboot as it is now to add "things to be chainloaded" +</I>>><i> to the list. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But that makes only sense for the bootloader which is in the MBR. So +</I>><i> you do it once and never again. +</I>><i> Whenever you add a distribution, you put the bootloader of this new +</I>><i> one in its root partition. Then you boot the distribution which has +</I>><i> its bootloader in the MBR and add the relevant 3 lines into its +</I>><i> menu.lst. You can't use drakboot for that. +</I> +It would make most sense to start with a bootloader in the MBR +then go to a root partition bootloader and finaly an operating Lystem, +but LiLo and GRUB let you go "up" a level back to the MBR's +bootloader, or "sideways". e.g. From /dev/sda to /dev/sda12 +to /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda to /dev/sda2 to an OS. It can even +loop to itself, pointless but it works. + +If you want to do things like that, then you need to be +very careful about how you label things. + +Do different things get listed in Mageia's bootloader config +depending on whether it is written to the MBR or the root +partition? Find everything if going to MBR, only list Mageia +stuff (and "back") if going to the root partition? + +BTW I was assuming that every distribution has its own tools. +If your "master" installation is Mageia (or even if it is not) +you can use drakboot to add chainloader commands to Mageia's +GRUB or LiLo configuration. + +-- +blind Pete +Sig goes here... + +</PRE> + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007203.html">[Mageia-discuss] Internet connection problems with internet 82579LM gigabit network card +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007200.html">[Mageia-discuss] can bootable partitions be detected during installation? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7199">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7199">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7199">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7199">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |