I installed a new drive. With all that space I decided to install Ubuntu Kooky Koala or whatever it's called, and also openSUSE 11.2 m6. They merrily installed (I used all defaults during the install process)... both installs saw the existing 11.1 install and offered to add it to GRUB. On reboot though, I get the 11.2 GRUB menu which only has 11.2 and 11.1 in the menu... no Ubuntu Koalas. If I pull the old drive out, then Ubuntu boots fine. Put it back in... and the Koala is hiding. OK, I can deal with this as it's just Ubuntu putting it's boot bit on the wrong drive - the hard part is guessing which drive the MBR is hiding on.
Does your BIOS have a selection "Disk boot order" ?
Yes.. and I can set it up like this: Disk2 - empty disk where I install 11.2 Disk4 - data only Disk5 - data only Disk3 - data only Disk1 - old install of 11.1 It will boot 11.2 GRUB as expected.. but if I tell it to start 11.1 instead of 11.2, it switches to the OLD GRUB from 11.1... ie I load a GRUB menu... pick 11.1, and it loads another GRUB before it finally boots. In the end, I think I'll pull the old Disk1 out, pop it into a USB drive case, install the new OS/partition scheme I want on Disk2, migrate the data from Disk1 to Disk2, reformat Disk1 and drop it back into the system. Convoluted way to do it, but it achieves what I want.. booting 100% from the new disk, and mult-boot with multiple partitions - this way I have space/partitions to play with the 11.2 milestones, and eventually the 11.3 release cycle too. To further add a proverbial monkey wrench into the fun, I thought I'd add Win7 to the mix. It thinks Disk2 is the 4th disk... it will install there, but it wants to add a mini partition to the disk it thinks is the first disk.. which is, for some bizarre reason, Disk3 (in the above config)... which I definitely do not want.. since Win7 does not speak Reiser, and it's only solution is to wipe the entire Disk3 and add it's mini partition there.. then install on Disk2. I can solve this one by installing Win7 on its own drive (with the other drives removed - it keeps Windows 100% isolated this way, and it can create whatever multipartiton scheme it wants without killing my Linux side) and using the BIOS boot priority thing for those rare occasions where I need to tinker in Windows. Ah the fun of it all :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org