On 10/10/2016 10:36 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
My system now has 4 drives installed and the BIOS only allows me to select just 3 drives (it's choice as to which 3 drives I get to choose from)
That sounds to me like a limitation of your BIOS, that there are three slot and only three slots.
So my question is this - is there some way to tell the YaST boot setup tool that I want to specify which drive that I want it to create an MBR on?
I don't know about Yast, I'm one of those people who grew up using the command line tools since I had to admin non-openSuse systems, The cli command 'mkinitrd' builds the kernel image. This gets run every time you install a new kernel, be it with Yast or zapper. This also build the Grub/grub2 menu. in due course it calls update-bootloader(8) later model openSuse, I'm sing 13.2 here and reading those manual pages, but i presume the same ordering/sequence of events applies in LEAP, makes use of 'dracut' which is a lot more flexible. part of that is that it makes it very clear which device is being used for bootthat is where the MBR gets written, where the initrd gets written. Please realise that in the grub2 entry under each menu you can set the root device in a number of ways. One of the tools that dracut/mkinitrd employs is 'os-prober'. (That too is configurable but lets keep things simple for now.) The result of this is that the boot menu in grub2.cfg can contain entries for every device, every partition on every device. I'm not sure how, or even if, yast handles this, but at the CLI level it all becomes very visible. The config files, the parameters, the sequence of operations is all very clear. There's an article from long ago about the relative attitudes of Windows style admins and Linux style admins. http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-many-mcses-wont-learn-linux/ Personally I think it goes deeper than jsut patterns vs 'sui generis' and even deeper than understanding principles knowing how to operate a GUI. Of course here's this http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png Marc, there's a point where what you're trying to do is beyond what Yast was intended for and it becomes massively more simple to use the CLI tools so you can see what you're doing and instruct the system to do EXACTLY what you want. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org