-------- Original Message -------- From: David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> Date: Sat 19 Jan 2008 08:29:11 EST
Dave Barton wrote:
I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 8<-- snip -->8 Have checked the BIOS and hardware jumpers are set correctly. 8<-- snip -->8 Can any of you folks here help me out with this?
TIA
Dave
Dave,
Do you have a BIOS setting that allows you to set your second hard drive a "bootable" as well. I know you said you checked the BIOS, but it would be worth another look to see if that setting is present. I have a Gigabyte board that requires the drives to be specifically set as bootable to be able to boot from those drives.
I battled on with this issue over the weekend (desperately need sleep), without any real progress. Before actually "throwing in the towel", I went back over all the advice you folks have generously tried to help me with. Believing that I had done a 100% check on the BIOS settings, I must have overlooked this little gem. Today I rechecked the BIOS and located the (almost hidden) option to switch the hdd boot priority, moved the second drive to the top of the list. On reboot I was greeted with that, not very attractive, but so very welcome GRUB menu. A big THANK YOU David. I should have listened to you in the first place. Now, the really hard part will be to get my colleague to give openSUSE a fair trial. Hum! What should I use, a baseball bat, or...... ;) Regards Dave