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Quad-Boot Fun, and A Correction
Blog I now have my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 set up to quad-boot XP/Ubuntu/openSuSE/Mandriva! In an earlier post I said that the openSuSE installation did not recognize a previously installed Ubuntu partition and set it up to dual-boot.
[July 2, 2008, 13:41]
A Few Notes about the GRUB Bootloader
Blog More entertainingly, it is also used for the openSUSE "winter penguin" boot graphic. One interesting thing in particular that you can do on openSUSE is edit the gfxboot.cfg file to change how often the "winter penguin" boot screen is displayed.
[January 9, 2009, 16:32]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment So I can use its GRUB as the main bootloader, and then boot Karmic from it, even though I can't access the Karmic parition once openSuSE is running. The situation is made a bit more complex by the fact that whether or not GRUB understands ext4 is...
[September 7, 2009, 20:57]
Another Look at openSolaris
Blog I assumed that because of openSolaris not understanding ext4 or Extended Partitions, I wouldn't be able to multi-boot under control of the openSolaris GRUB, so all I really wanted to do was figure out the boot command so that I could add that to...
[August 7, 2009, 15:25]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment The only exception that I have found to this is that the GRUB in openSuSE 11.1 does understand ext4. That's a bit odd, since the openSuSE 11.1 kernel doesn't understand ext4. However, almost all of the "older" versions of GRUB don't understand ext4...
[April 27, 2009, 9:06]
Weekend Success - Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog This weekend I had some time to spare, and once I get something like that in my mind I keep turning over and over, trying to figure out another approach.and it bothers me that openSuSE, Mandriva, MEPIS and VectorLinux all install just fine, but I...
[February 15, 2009, 16:00]
DIY Dual Atom Nettop System
Blog Then I decided to try the openSuSE 11.2 Milestone 2 distribution. So, I gave up on that one and went back to openSuSE 11.1. Boot the installed system, do my normal configuration and package installations, and it looks very, very good.
[June 5, 2009, 13:41]
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful and Maddening
Blog Well, since I've gone through both Ubuntu and openSuSE Linux, and my curiosity about Unix systems in general has really started to kick in, I've decided to go through a few more variants to see what they are like, how they load on my laptops, and...
[July 1, 2008, 11:07]
openSUSE Installation, DVD vs. LiveCD
Blog You can not simply boot and run openSUSE from the DVD in the way that you can from the LiveCD, so if your intent is to just try openSUSE and see if you like it, without actually installing it, you must use one of the LiveCD distributions.
[January 5, 2009, 14:16]
Good Things on the Horizon - But Use Caution!
Blog One bit of good news for HP 2133 netbook owners (like me).the kernel seems to get CPU frequency scaling right without requiring a manual edit of the boot command.openSuSE 11.2 Milestone 4: I've been trying the openSuSE 11.2 development releases...
[August 4, 2009, 16:05]
openSuSE 11.1 Released
Blog One other thing.when I got to the office this morning, and booted the S6510 (which I had installed openSuSE on last night), instead of the usual green startup screen I got a very cute little winter scene, with penguins running around the edges of...
[December 19, 2008, 8:43]
openSuSE stumbles, Ubuntu shines
Blog I tried loading openSuSE 11.0 on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110 over the weekend. But openSuSE was a different story, it didn't seem to want to actually change the resolution, no matter what I did.
[July 15, 2008, 9:21]
Linux and Disk Partitions
Blog One of these, by-id, is used by openSUSE and others. For this reason I have modified the configuration files on my openSUSE installations to use the UUID instead.jw 20/1/2009 Equally as important, this syntax can be used on the GRUB configuration...
[January 20, 2009, 16:09]
Companies selling preinstalled desktop Linux
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[April 2, 2007, 13:27]
Novell finalises OpenSuse 11
News Novell has released the last public version of OpenSuse 11.0 for testing, before the software's final release later this month. OpenSuse 11.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) appeared on Thursday, the same day Novell revealed strong growth in its Linux...
[June 2, 2008, 16:53]
Quad Boot - Friday Update - It's Good!
Blog The automatic update manager seems to be efficient and reliable.openSuSE: This probably wins the "cantankerous" award. As with openSuSE, when I installed the Citrix client, I had to manually symlink the plugin to the correct directory before it...
[July 4, 2008, 15:23]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 2
Blog Windows XP Professional openSuSE 11.1 However, at least with these never releases they have all of the bits of GRUB in the right places except for the actual configuration file (menu.lst), so I just let it install LILO, then I copied the GRUB...
[January 29, 2009, 14:02]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 3
Blog First, because there in an article in the Mandriva 2009 Release Notes about it, and second because I had seen the same problem with openSuSE, and they even include a shell script to fix it. Or, if you have access to an openSuSE distribution, you...
[February 3, 2009, 13:48]
Quad-Boot Fun, and A Correction
Blog Comment In fact, it was your comment earlier about openSuSE that inspired me to expand my horizons and investigate a number of Linux variants. I had noticed the partition numbering, and it had started to sink in, but I hadn't considered the impact on GRUB...
[July 3, 2008, 10:08]
CPU Frequency Scaling
Blog How about openSuSE and SuSE Linux Enterprise 11? The Ubuntu Community Wiki mentions that previous releases needed an additional parameter for the kernel boot command, so I thought the obvious thing to do was try that.
[April 3, 2009, 14:03]
