On 02/01/2014 01:57 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
В Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:06:13 -0500 Anton Aylward
пишет: Foolish me!
I've been running 12.3 quite happily. I bought a new drive and decided to install 13.1 on it. That went OK. But *sigh* the need for more config tweeks!
The real problem s that I _thought_ I was installing the boot on the mbr of the new drive. Apparently not. My mistake!
I was hoping to use the BIOS device boot selection to choose whch disk ... You know the rest.
I do not.
*sigh* BIOS can set order to boot from, which device first, so you can set it to boot from the CD *if* there is one in preference to the hard drive. There's also the option "Press F11" to choose which device to boot from" that presents a menu of all connected devices and you can choose explicitly, so over-riding the defaults. Doesn't your BIOS have a similar capability?
I'm not hoping that there's some way I can correct this,
Correct *what*? I still do not understand what the problem is. Did you install booltoader onto the "wrong" drive?
That's how it looks The bootloader for the 13.1 is on the drive that has the 12.3 and I can't boot the 12.3. Yes, I've tried YAST/bootloader to put it on the drive with the 13.1 but that still leaves me with an inaccessble 12.3. And I'm not entirely sure about the drive with the 13.1......
have the mbr of sda boot from the /boot on /sda and the mbr on sdb boot from the /boot on sdb.
To literally do what you describe you need to install generic MBR on both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb,
Yes I understand that.
mark partitions with /boot as active,
Yes I understand that
install bootloaders into /boot partitions boot block and somehow select your boot drive in BIOS every time you want to boot from another drive.
That's what I thought the install process on the new drive was doing. It appears it didn't.
I thought grub2 was supposed to scan for these things?
Which things? It is hard to guess what you expect here.
I thought that grub2 used something like os-prober to find all the available operating system images ... -- STATUS QUO is Latin for "the mess we're in." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org