At 16:02:58 on Saturday Saturday 23 October 2010, Felix Miata
wrote:
On 2010/10/23 15:52 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
If BIOS confusion is the reason for the problem, that would mean that the BIOS chip has stored somewhere the assumed order and location of the HDs. I have to wonder if there is not a way to delete that memory, perhaps by removing a jumper on the MB. I don't find any reference to such a jumper in the MB documentation (this is an Intel board, 915GAV -- an older board with a Pentium IV CPU).
When specific instructions for BIOS reset are missing from the manual, all that's usually required is to unplug the power supply, and remove the battery from the motherboard for several minutes or more. Usually in recent years these batteries have been common #2032 disk batteries readily available in stores. Maybe yours is pooping out prematurely. Does its clock keep accurate time when left off a few days at a time?
I might pull the battery and let the machine sit overnight.
I have done that, and gone through the BIOS settup. The result is that I don't get to the GRUB prompt anymore, because the screen goes black after the POST routine. There is no difference when the boot order is set for either HD. Previously, this happened only with one of the HDs. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org