On 8/16/20 10:43 PM, Mark Misulich wrote:
I ran the boot loader software on my desktop for a comparison to see if I could remember any differences from the configuration presented on the laptop when I ran the bootloader software in yast on that machine. On the Boot Code Options tab, the desktop software has checked:
Boot from Master Boot Record
and below it the following two options are checked:
Set active Flag in Partition Table for Boot Partition
Write generic Boot Code to MBR
On the laptop, I vaguely remember that it had the following selected
Boot from Master Boot Record
and below it
Write generic Boot Code to MBR
Could it be that the laptop Bootloader software should have also presented as checked, the option
Set active Flag in Partition Table for Boot Partition
If it wasn't checked, could that be the source of my present problem in booting, and how do I fix it?
Those sound like instructions if you want to enable "legacy" booting. It used to be that you could set the bootable flag in "fdisk". Like much else, this has been changed. Still, at a command line you'd go into fdisk -- like (as root) "fdisk /dev/sda" (or whatever your boot drive is mounted as) -- then hit "x" to get into the "expert" menu, then "A" to "toggle the legacy BIOS bootable flag". If you've never used fdisk before, use "p" to print the partition table (mentioned in the output you included above) and use "m" to bring up the menus in fdisk. If you aren't absolutely sure about what you've done in fdisk, you can always hit "q" to quite without writing any of the changes you've made. hth. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org