Greetings Fellow SUSE users!
Just installed SUSE11.0 on my home PC. So far all seems
great and well except for one little twist.
My configuration: Drive A has everything except /home
Drive B has only /home.
When I boot my system, I get a prompt like this:
F1: ??
F2: Linux
F3: Drive 1
To my knowledge, no other OS’s installed on these drives.
I deleted all the partitions etc.,
How do I get rid of this? I want it to boot into Linux
automatically. Is this anything to do with MBR?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Akshari
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:46:04 GMT
ashari5 <ashari5@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Greetings Fellow SUSE users!
>
> Just installed SUSE11.0 on my home PC. So far all seems
> great and well except for one little twist.
>
> My configuration: Drive A has everything except /home
> Drive B has only /home.
>
> When I boot my system, I get a prompt like this:
>
> F1: ??
> F2: Linux
> F3: Drive 1
>
> To my knowledge, no other OS’s installed on these drives.
> I deleted all the partitions etc.,
>
> How do I get rid of this? I want it to boot into Linux
> automatically. Is this anything to do with MBR?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Akshari
>
>
Hi
That looks like a BIOS menu selection, check your system BIOS to boot
from the drive with linux.
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Malcolm,
Thanks for your response.
I verified the BIOS settings: set to boot from drive A and then drive B.
Played with a couple of different options in the boot loader screen.
None of them fixed the issue.
It is a minor annoyance - since I have to wait for 10 secs before LINUX
starts loading. But I can live with it. If I have to re-install the OS, I will
wipe the drive clean and start all over again.
Again, thanks for your time.
Akshari
.
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:26:05 GMT
ashari5 <ashari5@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Malcolm,
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> I verified the BIOS settings: set to boot from drive A and then drive
> B.
> Played with a couple of different options in the boot loader screen.
> None of them fixed the issue.
>
> It is a minor annoyance - since I have to wait for 10 secs before
> LINUX starts loading. But I can live with it. If I have to
> re-install the OS, I will
> wipe the drive clean and start all over again.
>
> Again, thanks for your time.
>
> Akshari
Hi
OK, so if you go into YaST->System->Boot Loader
In here, you can set the default and also set the time (in seconds) to
wait at the screen. You can also set it to hidden if you go to the Boot
Loader Installation Tab and select the Boot Loader Options button and
set the check box.
If you want to edit via the CLI it’s the /boot/grub/menu.lst (thats a
lowercase L in lst), just make a backup first 
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SLED 10 SP2 i586 Kernel 2.6.16.60-0.25-default
up 0:44, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.19, 0.29
GPU GeForce Go 6600 TE/6200 TE Version: 173.14.09
Malcolm,
Thanks again for the reply.
Does the delay timer value controls the duration for displaying the boot choices
(as in menu.lst)? Or is it for not displaying the F1:??/F2:LINUX/F3:Drive 1?
Also if I choose the hide option, will I be presented with a list of choices or not
(from menu.lst)?
Thanks for your patience.
Akshari
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:06:03 GMT
ashari5 <ashari5@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Malcolm,
>
> Thanks again for the reply.
>
> Does the delay timer value controls the duration for displaying the
> boot choices
> (as in menu.lst)? Or is it for not displaying the
> F1:??/F2:LINUX/F3:Drive 1?
> Also if I choose the hide option, will I be presented with a list of
> choices or not
> (from menu.lst)?
>
> Thanks for your patience.
>
> Akshari
>
>
Hi
Yes, the delay is for how long the ‘GRUB’ bootloader menu waits until
it automatically boots the ‘default’ selection.
Now if it’s hidden it will display a ‘press the esc key’ to see the
menu, else it will boot the ‘default’ selection after a short delay.
Anyway, you can always change this option back once the system boots up.
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SLED 10 SP2 i586 Kernel 2.6.16.60-0.25-default
up 13:05, 2 users, load average: 2.18, 1.02, 0.81
GPU GeForce Go 6600 TE/6200 TE Version: 173.14.09