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From: "Mark Dodel"
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:21:11 UTC, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
wrote:
-> > Actually I no longer have Linux either. I had to delete all the
-> > OpenSUSE volumes because when I last "updated" it, it overwrote the
-> > MBR, somehow changed the order of all the partitions and I couldn't
-> > boot eCS any more. What was weird was I had everything working fine
-> > before that. I'm hesitant to screw with Linux anymore.
-> >
->
-> It's interesting to read this. Many years ago, Microsoft was Evil in
-> many people's eyes because installing Windows would overwrite their boot
-> managers and prevent them from rebooting back into their old operating
-> systems; and Linux was One of the Good Guys because it didn't do this.
-> Nowadays, I observe that exactly the sort of things are said about modern
-> Linux distributions, about how they screw up prior boot arrangements and
-> suchlike, as used to be said about Microsoft Windows.
->
-> Well you can always have fun CHKVOLling your FAT32 volume, even if you
-> don't get to see what the result looks like in Linux. (-:
I knew that a fresh install of most Linux distros would do this if I
wasn't real careful about placing grub in /root, but I never imagined
an update of an existing install would do it. And this T61 came from
Lenovo with just SLED 10 installed, so I had some experience with SLED
and OpenSUSE before. I actually liked OpenSUSE, better then some
other versions, but I'm waiting to see someone say they had success
with coexisting with eCS before I try it again.
mark
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