David C. Rankin composed on 2017-04-27 04:17 (UTC-0500):
This is on my HP8760w laptop. It has 2 hard drive bays (actually 3, the dvd drive can be removed and it will server as a 3rd bay). All are directly bootable via the bios. The problem is I have the original Win10 SSD in bay 1, and SuSE in bay 2. I boot direct to SuSE. How exactly? Are you using EFI, or a BIOS boot device selection menu?
With this setup, grub updated, via their fried os_prober, always overwrites the MBR on the Win10 drive instead of writing the bootloader to drive 2. This is frustrating as hell (and probably a large part of the reason that Arch only provides os_prober on the install media and does not install it in the OS) Are both SSD and HD running off the same controller and kernel module?
With the SuSE install on the 2nd drive, grub should only install as:
grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sdb
Only thing I can suggest is put Grub same place I always say to put it, on the / or /boot partition's PBR, not on the MBR. Put Generic MBR code on the MBR and leave it there untouched. Set boot flag on primary partition containing Grub. Set up Windows SSD the same way. Add the Grub partition to the bcd Windows boot menu for chainloading to. If not EFI and you are really ambitious, remove Grub2 and install Grub. I find Grub2 useful only to make life much more complicated.
but instead in the install everywhere leap setup, it installs as
grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda (the win 10 drive)
even specifying in /etc/default/grub_installdevice /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb activate generic_mbr
and explicitly specifying the UUID for the install filesystem in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/3cadab5b-13b4-4dce-84d3-05e2070f741c splash=silent quiet showopts" GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER="true"
I give up...
Do you actually want a quiet boot hiding boot messages that might explain trouble? If not, strip the splash and quiet parameters from the Grub configuration. They're there for the benefit mostly of dweebs who want to see nothing before the greeter, like in windoz. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org