On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 22:20 -0500, Neil Rickert wrote:
On 4/25/19 6:34 PM, Mark Misulich wrote:
I'm trying to install 15.1 on a computer on the second hard drive. That is /dev/sdb. In the installation readout for booting, the mbr keeps on coming up as /dev/sdb. But my mbr is esconsced in /dev/sda. I can't find a way to change the installation to boot from the mbr in /dev/sda. Everything I have tried reports to me that the 15.1 installation won't boot. No surprise, it doesn't.
In the boot settings, check the box for "Custom boot partition" and then enter "/dev/sda" in the space provided.
If you are able to boot your installed system, you can use Yast bootloader to make that change. Maybe booting the installer to the rescue system or using it to boot your system can work.
I did try to make the changes you suggested, but the installion software kept giving me a message that the system wouldn't boot with that configuration. So I didn't execute the change. Maybe it would have worked, or not, in spite of the warning message, I don't know. I did find a way to resolve this problem, however. The computer is a multiboot, with Opensuse 15.0 on a separate partition. I booted into 15.0, and used yast to rewrite the grub menu. It picked up the installed 15.1 system which I couldn't boot, and wrote it into the mbr on /dev/sda. I can boot the 15.1 system now. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org