Your Windows is installed in legacy BIOS mode. If openSUSE is indeed installed in UEFI mode it will not add Windows to boot menu, because you cannot boot legacy Windows bootloader in UEFI. Your best bet is to reinstall openSUSE in legacy BIOS mode.
Well legacy will only support 2 TB drives. GDI supports much larger. UEFI supports secure boot but only needed for Windows 8+ if you want it. Other then that no differences that mean anything. UEFI is much more complicated and thus has more problems being setup. As you can see lol
I’ve reinstalled and this time using GRUB2. The problem persists but in a different form. When powered on the system boots into Windows straight away, no GRUB. If I pull the boot menu on start up I can these options:
If I select HDD2 I get brought to GRUB (which is now giving an option to boot Windows), If I choose “opensuse” Windows starts. No problem I thought: “I’ll just change the boot order”. When changing the boot order in the BIOS, however, I’m only given 3 options: 1, 2 and 4.
Obviously I can’t just use “opensuse” since that boots Windows.
It’s not a huge issue I just don’t want to have to spam F12 every time I boot!
If you can’t change boot order in BIOS you can install grub into MBR of the first drive. Go into YaST2 bootloader configuration and select /dev/sda as bootloader location. This means you will no more be able to directly boot Windows unless you repair bootsector using Windows recovery tools.
Ok just tried this, no luck. YaST doesn’t seem to save the settings. When I check “custom Boot Partition” and select /dev/sda and accept, it says installing etc.
Then upon restart, windows boots. When I check back in YaST it hasnt saved my settings, “Boot From Master Record” is checked again.
Did you also uncheck all other options besides “Custom partition”? How YaST2 chooses between multiple choices requested by user is still a mystery to me.
Windows started by default, when I F12’ed and booted the opensuse HDD I got brought to GRUB with an option to boot windows which works.
I installed GRUB (1) and now when I start the PC I am brought straight to GRUB but with no Windows option. I tried to add /sda2 but it says “BOOTMGR not found”
Adding /sda1 kicks me out and straight back to GRUB.
Any ideas? I googled rewriting Windows Bootloader but I couldnt find much documentation about it in a context which applies to my problem.
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu May 9 00:04:55 BST 2013
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# For the new kernel it try to figure out old parameters. In case we are not able to recognize it (e.g. change of flavor or strange install order ) it it use as fallback installation parameters from /etc/sysconfig/bootloader
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,1)/boot/message
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title Desktop -- openSUSE 12.3 - 3.7.10-1.1
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1001FALS-403AA0_WD-WMATR0061169-part2 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1001FALS-403AA0_WD-WMATR0061169-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-3.7.10-1.1-desktop
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title Failsafe -- openSUSE 12.3 - 3.7.10-1.1
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1001FALS-403AA0_WD-WMATR0061169-part2 showopts apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe
initrd /boot/initrd-3.7.10-1.1-desktop
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title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
