Dave Barton wrote:
-------- Original Message -------- From: David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> Date: Sat 19 Jan 2008 08:29:11 EST
Dave Barton wrote:
I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 8<-- snip -->8 Have checked the BIOS and hardware jumpers are set correctly. 8<-- snip -->8 Can any of you folks here help me out with this?
TIA
Dave
Dave,
Do you have a BIOS setting that allows you to set your second hard drive a "bootable" as well. I know you said you checked the BIOS, but it would be worth another look to see if that setting is present. I have a Gigabyte board that requires the drives to be specifically set as bootable to be able to boot from those drives.
I battled on with this issue over the weekend (desperately need sleep), without any real progress. Before actually "throwing in the towel", I went back over all the advice you folks have generously tried to help me with. Believing that I had done a 100% check on the BIOS settings, I must have overlooked this little gem. Today I rechecked the BIOS and located the (almost hidden) option to switch the hdd boot priority, moved the second drive to the top of the list. On reboot I was greeted with that, not very attractive, but so very welcome GRUB menu.
A big THANK YOU David. I should have listened to you in the first place.
Now, the really hard part will be to get my colleague to give openSUSE a fair trial. Hum! What should I use, a baseball bat, or...... ;)
Regards
Dave
Woohoo, I finally guessed right! For you colleague, with all the perseverance and dedication you showed in sticking with the install, you should explain that you would like to see the same in return on their fair trial of 10.3. We all know, but need to find a way to convey, that they will not find a more elegant or capable OS -- period. Good for you Dave, now let's see if your colleague will do their part. We build open source 1 convert at a time. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org