On 2022-05-10 09:41, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
This really asks -- what is the default behavior for YAST if it sees Windows on sda with os_prober? I do NOT want YAST to touch the window drive, I don't want the boot sector modified, I don't want grub put there, I don't want chainloaded options for dual-boot, etc...
With either 423 or 15.0 I have YAST think it was okay to modify the windows install and put grub there with options to chainload windows (which was hell finding out how to restore the boot loader on Windows (I don't want to be thrown into that briar-patch again -- ouch)
So if I'm installing to sdb, and windows is sda, what do I need to do to tell YAST not to touch sda?
I have not tried 15.4, but on previous installs there is a menu somewhere in the expert partitioner where you can mark and tell yast what exact disks or partitions to use. You must use the Expert Partitioner option (bottom center) when you get to the
On 2022-05-10 04:25:29 Carlos E. R. wrote: partitioning setup page. The left column should show | All Devices | Hard Disks | sda | sdb | : Choose the disk you want openSUSE to install onto, and define root, swap, etc. partitions. (See https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/single-html/book-refer... for details on using the partitioner and the boot setup tools.) Continue with additional setup pages. Eventually you will get to the Installation Settings page. There you will see an entry for Booting which you can use to tell the installer on which device you want the boot to be placed. Leslie
I can not tell you exactly where it is, because I would need to boot the installer on a machine that already has several partitions to refresh my memory, and I don't like rebooting my machine to do that.
<https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book-startup/cha -install.html#sec-yast-install-partitioning>
3.7 Partitioning 3.7.1 Important information ... 3.7.2 Suggested partitioning ... Guided setup
To adjust the proposal, choose Guided Setup. First, *choose which hard disks and partitions to use*.
There it is.
Leslie --