On Tuesday 02 of December 2008 13:56:16 Joachim Reichelt wrote:
Am 02.12.2008 13:53, Jiri Srain schrieb:
On Tuesday 02 of December 2008 13:28:03 Joachim Reichelt wrote:
What about putting the bootloader on the second ... disk and using the bios to select the drive to boot from?
Then this disk becomes (from the BIOS point of view) the first disk.
First disk means disk 0x80 (resp. (hd0) in the GRUB terminology). Actually this is why the detection cannot work reliably - you cannot say which disk will be bootable after you change the boot order from the one for installation to the one for running system.
I will add some clarification to the page.
Jiri
The difficulty is, that e.g. opensuse writes the bootsector to the drive it assumes to be drive 0x80 and there is no easy way to change it.
It is, you can manually select to install boot loader to any device as well as reorder the devices in case the detection went wrong. This can be done via the bootloader module in the installation proposal. Jiri -- Regards, Jiri Srain YaST Team Leader --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: jsrain@suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 959 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz