Le 30/10/2014 08:13, Felix Miata a écrit :
Many BIOS by default behave exactly like the BIOS of 3 decades ago, booting from a removable device if a bootable removable device (floppy then; USB, Firewire, eSATA, or internal OM on ATA now) is present at boot time. Since it's a common if not dominant default, saying "I" configured it so is inapt.
not dominant, no. I very often install openSUSE on other people computer and I often have to press whatever key to bring up the boot menu. and why will I have to keep a *bootable* external device if I don't need it on purpose? I have lot of *data* disks, not bootable ones! that said, at least on esata it's possible, and stable. When I first tried my new SSD, I plugged it in a esata dock and runned it that way for more than a month before deciding to set it inside the box. All this without problem. I do not use /dev/sdx, but I could (and did some time ago) jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org