Blackkeys1098
New Member
I've got Solus on one SSD and Pop on a separate one. Is there a way to be prompted on start up which one to boot? I'm trying to find something better than jumping into the Asus bios to choose which drive to boot from.
Hi Chris, thanks for the replyG'day @Blackkeys1098
Which distro did you put on last?
Pop works off grub, but Solus works off systemd-boot, I believe.
There is also a video here that may be of use to you, but I have not tried it myself yet.
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
Does the install order matter if the drives are separate as opposed to a partition?
It boots using grub. I’ve installed solus on a bunch of computers and it always seems like to default that way.No, it shouldn't. Only insofar as which one appears on top (I call it the Prime Partition) in a Grub Menu, which you possibly do not have yet, but I can show you how to get one.
Crikey I just watched that video and it looks complex, doesn't it? And as is often the case, the author (who appears to be Portuguese) is too quick on the movements, so I would have to pause it a lot, wind forward and backwards and so on.
It reminded me, though, that I failed to ask you did you install Solus under Legacy conditions or UEFI? If Legacy, it uses Grub, if UEFI then the systemd-boot.
Wiz
I'm not familiar with that. How do I go about finding and installing it?Why don't you just install refind as boot manager ? It enables you to just dump grub and enables you to start from whatever disk is connected, without going through the bios...
Cheers,
Eddy
The solus grub options don't seem to recognize the other SSD. Do I perhaps need to reinstall Pop to boot from grub for it to be recognized? All the videos I'm finding seem to be for 1, both OS's using grub and 2, both OS's are on separate partitions on the same drive.Fair comment, Eddy - I can't use rEFInd much, basically because I run 78 distros and it's too much scrolling and trying to identify where I want to go.
But if the OP is already using Grub, then he need only go and edit
/etc/default/grub
to include or amend the line there to say
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
then run
sudo update-grub
and reboot and see if both are recognised.
Cheers
Wizard
The solus grub options don't seem to recognize the other SSD. Do I perhaps need to reinstall Pop to boot from grub for it to be recognized?
both OS's are on separate partitions on the same drive.
this 3 drive desktop nonsense that seemed like a good idea at the time has me scratching my head;