Tony Alfrey wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-06-21 14:28, Tony Alfrey wrote:
But now I discover the following:
1. If I leave the Windows drive /out/ of the BIOS order and leave the SUSE drive /in/ the BIOS order, the Windows drive appears in the GRUB splash screen but will not boot.
2. If I leave the SUSE drive /out/ of the BIOS order /entirely/ and leave the Windows drive /in/ the BIOS order, the same GRUB splash screen appears, and everything will boot.
It sounds as though the SUSE install wrote the MBR to the Windows drive and the SUSE drive.
Or that grub and Linux ignores the bios (they always did, mostly).
Is this correct? If so, this really ticks me off.
You can find out.
Download this script:
<https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript/raw/master/bootinfoscript>
and run it. It will extract lots of information about your boot system and partitions, including how and where boot sequence is set up.
Holy S^%&, where did you get this thing? It is very impressive! Yes, just as I suspected, the SUSE installer put grub on the Windows disk! I would certainly like to take that off and return the Windows disk to its previous state and simply put the four lines of code into grub.cfg on the SuSE disk that do the mapping thing that make Windows think it's the first disk.
This totally sucks!!. It means that my Windows disk is dependent on the existence of the SuSE disk. If I pull the SuSE disk out, and try to boot the Windows disk, grub in the Windows MBR looks for the Windows disk as sdb when it now the /first/ drive in the system! So now my WindowsXP disk is captive to having the exact SuSE 13.1 drive with that grub installation to be able to boot itself. I actually tried to simply swap out the SuSE disk with a Fedora 10 disk, and grub on the Windows disk goes into rescue mode!! Does anyone know how I can fix the MBR in the Windows disk and restore it to what it was and then go back and clean up grub.cfg in SuSE? -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org