installing Fedora 11 on dual-boot machine changes active partition?

[fedora]

Hi
"without any
 > GRUB menu popping up for me to decide whether to resume this OS or that"

if in the following file
vi /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub

you short-cirbuit the procedure default_resume_kernel()

then you can again select the OS to boot after hibernation

suomi

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 17:36 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
>> Yes, if you read my message again, you'll see that we already
>> discovered this (except for the Vista hibernation part - does Fedora
>> hibernation care which is active?).  My question is, given that this
>> is the case, why does the F11 installer change the active partition if
>> it doesn't have to?
> 
> It might be the drive partitioner, rather than grub, doing it.  There's
> two things you'd have to check on.
> 
> It might be important for some BIOSs which partition(s) are active, but
> it hasn't mattered on computers I've played with in the past, as far as
> I can recall.  
> 
> It's possibly even more important regarding hibernation, or more to the
> point, waking up from hibernation.  I've messed around, a bit, with dual
> boot.  And hiberating one OS, then another, it doesn't always resume the
> Windows hibernation, but the Linux one always resumed (and without any
> GRUB menu popping up for me to decide whether to resume this OS or that.
> 
>