On 2014-02-01 14:16, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 02/01/2014 01:57 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
I was hoping to use the BIOS device boot selection to choose whch disk ... You know the rest.
I do not.
*sigh* BIOS can set order to boot from, which device first, so you can set it to boot from the CD *if* there is one in preference to the hard drive. There's also the option "Press F11" to choose which device to boot from" that presents a menu of all connected devices and you can choose explicitly, so over-riding the defaults.
Doesn't your BIOS have a similar capability?
Yes, but your wording was unclear. The "You know the rest" confused me.
I'm not hoping that there's some way I can correct this,
Correct *what*? I still do not understand what the problem is. Did you install booltoader onto the "wrong" drive?
That's how it looks The bootloader for the 13.1 is on the drive that has the 12.3 and I can't boot the 12.3.
You have to be very careful and look at all the yast screens to see what is going where.
Yes, I've tried YAST/bootloader to put it on the drive with the 13.1 but that still leaves me with an inaccessble 12.3. And I'm not entirely sure about the drive with the 13.1......
If you want 12.3 disk to boot directly from the bios, you have to repair that separately.
I thought grub2 was supposed to scan for these things?
Which things? It is hard to guess what you expect here.
I thought that grub2 used something like os-prober to find all the available operating system images ...
Yes, but it has to be installed first. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)