Boot and grub problems I think)

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#1

I bought a new (old) box because I accidentally burned my motherboard.

The new machine came with Windows7. I installed my old SATA drive in the new box. I tried to get it to book to my former Ubuntu partition, without luck. So I ended installling the latest version of Ubuntu which I did not like. So now I have open SUSE up and running. I’m not sure exactly what I did while fiddling with Ubuntu, but here is the result:

When I turn the machine on I get a message like this:
DEll System OptPLex
BIOS version A07

Drive 1 not found: SATA1
Drive 3 not found: SATA3
Drive 5 not found : Pata1

Strike F1 to continue F2 for Setup.

When I hit F1 It goes to the grub loader, and o can choose the system I want to boot, and all is well. But I would like the computer to be able to boot without me pressing F1

Here is what my F stab looks like in case that is important:
/dev/sdb1 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD080HJ_P_S0DEJ1IL871091-part5 /home/Ubuntu10 ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD080HJ_P_S0DEJ1IL871091-part7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD400JD-22LSA0_WD-WMAMC4141588-part4 /home/UbubtuOLD ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD400JD-22LSA0_WD-WMAMC4141588-part7 /home/b7Home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD080HJ_P_S0DEJ1IL871091-part6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD080HJ_P_S0DEJ1IL871091-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD400JD-22LSA0_WD-WMAMC4141588-part5 /home/b5 vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD400JD-22LSA0_WD-WMAMC4141588-part6 /home/b6 vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD400JD-22LSA0_WD-WMAMC4141588-part8 /home/b8 vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

Thanks in advance for help,

Reuven

#2

Plug in the HDD you want to boot first to the first SATA port on the mainboard (the labels are sometimes wrong). You might have to switch boot priority in the BIOS … you’ll see. In any case, try to remember what you do. There might (still) be other problems, but having the first disk at the first place will help. A nice way to dual boot Windows and Linux on differents HDDS is to connect the Windows drive to SATA1, the Linux drive to SATA2, switch boot priority so that it will be booted from the Linux HDD and install Grub (either Grub2 or Legacy) in the MBR of this disk. That’s what Ubuntu’s setup would do. openSUSE installs Grub in a partition and set the bootflag on this partition. This approach is more Windows friendly but less efficient in some circumstances. Both methods would work for you.

#3

Thank you–It’s working