Dave Barton wrote:
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From: David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
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Have checked the BIOS and hardware jumpers are set correctly.
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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.
Sometimes fatigue is your worst enemy, killing your
ability to make logical and complete observations
rest is the only solution.
Knowing your limits in this area is crucial.
I was once criticized for not staying up all hours of the
night to solve a 30-minute problem before a test-run at
noon the next day. (This after a 10-hour drive (normally
5 hours) in a snow storm from our corporate headquarters
out to this warehouse where we were conducting a test of
a new pilot system)....
As I explained to the warehouse manager -- I could have
stayed at the site, and being very fatigued, continually
get things wrong...and more wrong as the night dragged
on, or I could go back to my hotel get some rest, and,
as soon as the meeting is over, get the problem solved
in 30 minutes, leaving 3 hours to spare before the start
of the test. As it was, I had to go to my "plan B",
(which involv ed an series of tests and then fabricating
a custom interface conversion) which took an hour...but
if I had tried it the night before... who knows if I
ever would have had it right before finally just
hitting the wall.
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...... ;)
Tell him you'll treat him and his wife for dinner some night
if he can demonstrate proficiency with Konqueror, OpenOffice,
and a couple other things in 30 days.
Regards
Dave
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