An external USB drive exists with Opensuse 13.1 installed. It is used as an Opensuse system adjacent to a Microsoft internal SATA drive. This dual system allows a user to exercise two operating systems on one desktop or laptop. While booting a user can depress the F12 switch for a booting option list. If the external USB(Opensuse) drive is plugged into a USB port during boot and is allowed to load Microsoft, MS will tag the USB external drive with its stamp on the Opensuse boot screen. Now, if booting from the Opensuse external drive a MS signature is present on the Opensuse 13.1 boot screen.
My question is, how can I remove any reference to MS from the Opensuse boot screen?
On 2014-09-23 16:16, atpmel wrote:
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> An external USB drive exists with Opensuse 13.1 installed. It is used as
> an Opensuse system adjacent to a Microsoft internal SATA drive. This
> dual system allows a user to exercise two operating systems on one
> desktop or laptop. While booting a user can depress the F12 switch for a
> booting option list. If the external USB(Opensuse) drive is plugged into
> a USB port during boot and is allowed to load Microsoft, MS will tag the
> USB external drive with its stamp on the Opensuse boot screen. Now, if
> booting from the Opensuse external drive a MS signature is present on
> the Opensuse 13.1 boot screen.
>
> My question is, how can I remove any reference to MS from the Opensuse
> boot screen?
I have never seen this. It may be a feature of your BIOS/UEFI.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Well you can edit the grub menu to remove reference to MS. I assume that it what you want?? in any case it will probably come back after kernel/grub updates. Not sure how to black list an OS. LOL
A clarification. Consider a retail purchased desktop with its mandatory Microsoft installation. It has one internal hard drive, a MS(Microsoft) hard drive. A recommendation is made not to install a multi-boot dual partition on the MS drive. Rather an external USB hard drive is used to install 13.1 Opensuse. Much like Mandriva offers ramdisks to boot its Linux distro from a USB port. Modern BIOS gives us options to boot from other devices such as CD-rom drives or DVD-rom drives. Modern BIOS also gives us options to boot from USB sources, as well. If an external USB hard drive has Opensuse installed on it and is plugged in to a USB port while MS is allowed to boot, microsoft will tag the Opensuse drive with a stamp for later MS identification. I would like to learn a method to remove any reference to microsoft or any MS stamp or tag that appears on the Opensuse drive. Any ideas?
Have no idea what you are saying about MS tagging things?? Who recommended not to install other OS next to MS on same drive? Many many people do it without problems
My only thought is you are talking about a grub boot option pointing to the MS OS.
Nice story but it does not make sense. I think you are working with bad information. Please just tell us what you want to happen.
Windows will, at times, insert a 6-byte ID string in the MBR. Linux is careful to not rely on those 6 bytes. I have never seen that ID show up on a boot screen, but perhaps I don’t know where to look. You can change that string with “fdisk”.
> I’m still not sure what this is.
>
> Windows will, at times, insert a 6-byte ID string in the MBR. Linux is
> careful to not rely on those 6 bytes. I have never seen that ID show up
> on a boot screen, but perhaps I don’t know where to look. You can
> change that string with “fdisk”.
If you mean the “Disk identifier” field, notice that Windows uses that
field to detect hardware change. Meaning, that if you change it (on the
Windows disk), it thinks that you changed the Windows disk, and tells
you that you have to reactivate the license. So you get a black desktop,
or none at all.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 2014-09-24 00:16, nrickert wrote:
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> robin_listas;2666066 Wrote:
>> If you mean the “Disk identifier” field, notice that Windows uses that
>> field to detect hardware change.
>
> That does seem to be what the OP was concerned about.
And grub displays that code? I’ve never seen it.
Perhaps grub2 does? Or plymouth?
> I’ll admit to finding it a bit amusing.
Rather.
I still don’t know what exactly he was concerned about :-?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 2014-09-24 01:36, nrickert wrote:
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> robin_listas;2666100 Wrote:
>> And grub displays that code? I’ve never seen it.
>> Perhaps grub2 does? Or plymouth?
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> I have not seen it. I looked carefully at the grub2 menu.
I don’t have a machine with grub 2 that I can boot and look. Not now, at
least.
> I don’t have
> plymouth on my 13.1 systems.
Me neither, I always remove it, routinely.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)