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[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:42 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Tuesday 2008-03-04 at 15:23 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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> > I remember on previous openSUSE installs (e.g., 10.0), one could select
> > the disk boot order in the BIOS. I do not mean if it is in a partition
> > or the MBR. I mean which disk. All disks are present in the install so
> > all info is there to do this, as it did in 10.0. For the life of me, I
> > do not see this in 10.3. I am guessing it is moved or traveling
> > incognito. Anyone know where this is now located?
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> AFAIK “the disk boot order in the BIOS” is selected in the BIOS, 
> obviously.
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> Or are you asking about something different? :-?

Yes. The BIOS is involved, up to a point. But if there are two disks in
the system during install, and one later gets removed, something
important may may go missing. In 10.0, you could select which disk was
going to be the boot disk, and then the install made sure all things
boot related were set up for this. In my case, there is a removable disk
that shows up as /dev/sda during install (no matter where it is in the
BIOS boot order), and the disk I want to install on is /dev/sdb. In 10.0
I could, in a menu available during install, tell the install
that /dev/sdb is the boot disk. Removing /dev/sda has no effect. The
boot always works. I am looking for this functionality in 10.3 that
worked great for me in 10.0. As I wrote, perhaps it is now done via
different information. I am trying to find out what that is.


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Roger Oberholtzer

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