Re: Not staying installed correctly... (kinda long) -possibly solved

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On 03/11/2012 05:32 AM, Insomniac wrote:

> to boot again into my opensuse, I was unplugging the opensuse hdd from the MOBO and 
> switching the boot sequence in the BIOS so that the secondary hdd was the only hdd to boot 
> after the CDROM. Apparently this messes things up somewhere, somehow.

So you were leaving out the most relevant parts?

> 
>   Looks like I'm going to have to make sure my backup of my main hdd is as up-to-date as I 
> need and try the installation with both hdd's plugged in and hope I can make YaST get the 
> boot sequence thing right (at least until I'm able to work a while with Slackware and see 
> if I end up liking it better, and then who knows what may happen, heh heh).

You mean Lilo. And yes, Lilo will get it right. then you'll just edit
/etc/lilo.conf and run lilo after the edit so that you can dual boot.

I've never really been a fan of dual boot scenarios. But I do recommend
running VirtualBox - especially if you want to sandbox something in an
environment where you can just rollback to a previous snapshot until you
get it right (instead of having to go through an entire
fdisk/format/mount/install/config process that keeps you up until the
wee hours of the morning.

Oh, and of course, not leaving out pertinent items about the steps you
followed during the installation process helps too ;)

I hope that helps :)

Kindest regards,


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