From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2023-03-22 11:54, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 3/21/23 22:05, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2023-03-22 02:23, bad sector wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>> ...as opposed to a common swap which, theologically, would just   
   >>>>> preclude any form of resurrection?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Huh?   
   >>>   
   >>> Use of a swap partition common to all systems would prevent one of   
   >>> those systems from ever 'resurrecting' after having entered   
   >>> hybernation if in between another system got booted and made use of   
   >>> that swap partition. I don't have a problem with this, but it seems   
   >>> to me that I'm having fewer issues all around since I have started   
   >>> using dedicated swaps.   
   >>   
   >> I told you that:   
   >>   
   >> Boot A partition   
   >> Hibernate A partition   
   >>   
   >>    Boot B partition   
   >>    halt B partition   
   >>   
   >> Thaw A partition   
   >>   
   >> is a recipe for disaster, don't ever do it.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, having a single swap avoids this, so it is a good thing. Precisely.   
   >>   
   >>> But none of this is getting me any closer to getting a handle on the   
   >>> difference between 1 & 3 in the OP, or on the need to use the system   
   >>> partition as a "Boot Partition" when there already is a definitive   
   >>> "BIOS Boot" partition. I figure a little more verbose help bubbles on   
   >>> that dialog would be useful.   
   >>   
   >> I already told you that selecting 1 and 3 is not a problem at all.   
   >> Even 1, 2 and 3 simultaneously is fine, if you wish.   
   >>   
   >> 1 writes to the current partition that was used for booting the   
   >> current system.   
   >>   
   >> 3 lets you specify which partition.   
   >>   
   >> 2 writes to the master boot record of the hard disk.   
   >   
   > I didn't think it was a PROBLEM, I wanted to know what it does and why   
   > it's preselected by default at all but especially in view of equal   
   > choice #1 which is already selected before it. So, assumingthat it's   
   > just the coder's way to try to assure a bulletproof boot the next time I   
   > can live with that and even applaud it (especially if right below the   
   > uuid window it'd say in small print "current partition preselected only   
   > for lack of a different user directive".   
      
   No, it is not the default.   
      
   It happens in your case for some reason I can't know. For example   
   because it was done this way initially, and YaST remembers.   
      
   For example, writing to the MBR on my laptop #1 would render it unbootable.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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