On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:09 +0000, Bob wrote:
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 15:39:08 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2008-03-04 at 16:21 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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.
Maybe the information you need is the file /boot/grub/device.map.
Which is the boot disk depends entirely on the bios, then on whatever program that disk MBR contains. This program can then boot another disk or partition.
If what worries you is the change of name when removing/adding a drive, then simply do not use those names. Edit grub so that instead of '/dev/sda' it uses labels or ids, for instance.
Are you talking about the location of /boot? You can set this up at installation time in the Partitioning wizard.
It could be /boot. But it is not the just files themselves (I think). It is the boot tracks that can be written either to the MBR or to a partition. It must ALL (all stages) be written to the same disk (/dev/sdb). In 10.0, there was a little pop-up menu available in the install that listed all found disks. You just moved the one you wanted to contain all this information to the top of the list. There is no such popup in 10.3. There is a "more verbose and less obvious about the intent" choice of things like described here: http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse103/opensuse103_reference/index.... in section 13.3.2. I am guessing this accomplishes the EXACT same thing, but presented in a totally different way. (Sorry about the long URL - that is what the Novell site made as I moved through the document.) I guess my question was just wanting to confirm this. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org