I have just one question left - I know what needs to be done - I just don’t know how to do it !
I have 2 hard drives and have installed Windows 8.1 on disk 0 - openSUSE 13.2 on disk 1. Now Windows boots up when I log in.
In order to get to openSUSE 13.2 - I press - at the appropriate time - F12 (Boot Menu ) - you are then presented with the “Boot Menu” - Hard disk is selected and you get
a second menu labelled “hard Disk” appears - here we have 3 lines
One thing!
Windows 8 does not shutdown properly when you go to shutdown from the UI menu
You have to make some changes (just google it, it’s a massive issue) or pressing the power button on your machine should initiate a full power off.
This could be part of your problem, though I’m not totally sure.
Hang around for help on the other part, which I assume is UEFI related…
On 23/01/15 05:56, lelmuri123 wrote:
>
> I have just one question left - I know what needs to be done - I just
> don’t know how to do it !
>
> I have 2 hard drives and have installed Windows 8.1 on disk 0 - openSUSE
> 13.2 on disk 1. Now Windows boots up when I log in.
>
> In order to get to openSUSE 13.2 - I press - at the appropriate time -
> F12 (Boot Menu ) - you are then presented with the “Boot Menu” - Hard
> disk is selected and you get
>
> a second menu labelled “hard Disk” appears - here we have 3 lines
>
> (1) CH 0 S: WDC W10EZEX-08M2NA0
> (2) CH 1 M: WDC W10 EZEX-00BN5A0
> (3) Bootable add on cards
>
> CH 0 is the Windows drive and its hi-lighted - and this is why we always
> boot to WIndows
>
> CH 1 is the linux drive
>
> Now you can instead select CH 1 - so that its hi-lighted and press enter
> - the GRUB2 message appears and allows me to boot to Linux
>
> I have tested logging into Windows from the GRUB2 menu - and it works.
>
> At this point you have a menu which allows you a choice as to where to
> log in. ( Windows or Linux )
>
> Now if you just carry on with Linux and then logout and back in - well
> you are back to Windows 8.1 again !
>
> I know that I need to change the Boot order somehow - but I do not know
> how to do that.!!
>
> Of course I would like to be able to turn my PC on and get a GRUB2 menu
> everytime.
>
> I went into YAST / System / Boot Loader - and its not obvious to me what
> I would need to change here.
>
> I would appreciate some advice with this question -
>
> Regards
>
> Leland Muri
>
>
F12 is usually entry to the BIOS boot selection. Have you tried changing
the boot order within the BIOS so that CH 1 comes before CH 0?
Boot order is changed in the BIOS. How to do it depends on the BIOS used. The Machine’s boot screen should give a clue what keys to press to start the BIOS editor. Some where in the BIOS menus you will see options to change the boot order. Were and the exact wording of course depends on the particulate BIOS. You may try the Web site for the Company that makes the computer they may(should) have a manual.
Another thing that can be done if you don’t fear opening the case is to switch the data line to the drives.
My board has an UEFI option to change boot order of disks arbitrarily. It even offers to boot from my Brother USB printer. I did not yet try this, but it works with three SATA and all USB disks.
I always get a GRUB2 menu. I managed this by having the disk with GRUB2 at top of UEFI boot order and checking the GRUB2 option ‘probe foreign OS’ on tab ‘Boot Loader Options’.