installation OpenSuse alongside windows 10

[GodOfKnockers]

Last night, I managed  to install OpenSuse inplace of Ubuntu desktop. The problem is though is that even though its installed I don't see the grub menu to choose between the two systems... it just boots into Windows 10. The windows 10 install is on a separate SSD, and the OpenSuse install is on an 80gb partition on a second drive.

 

What am I missing?

 

[Sauron]

Did you make sure the drive with OpenSUSE on has a higher boot priority than the windows drive?

[GodOfKnockers]

How exactly do I do that? I'm new to this kind of installation. 

[Sauron]

12 minutes ago, GodOfKnockers said:

How exactly do I do that? I'm new to this kind of installation. 

In your BIOS there should be a boot options menu or something along those lines; in that menu you can set the order in which the BIOS checks your drives for bootable installations. If the Windows drive has a higher priority, the BIOS will check that first and boot Windows without ever checking if the other drive has something on it.

 

Alternatively you can bring up your boot menu, on most motherboard that's done by pressing f12, del or another f key - you can find out exactly what key that is for you by reading your motherboard's manual or looking it up on the internet. The boot menu will let you select the drive you want to boot from.

 

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by the way, quote or mention me if you want me to see your answers - I saw this by chance because I still had the page open

[GodOfKnockers]

7 minutes ago, Sauron said:

In your BIOS there should be a boot options menu or something along those lines; in that menu you can set the order in which the BIOS checks your drives for bootable installations. If the Windows drive has a higher priority, the BIOS will check that first and boot Windows without ever checking if the other drive has something on it.

 

Alternatively you can bring up your boot menu, on most motherboard that's done by pressing f12, del or another f key - you can find out exactly what key that is for you by reading your motherboard's manual or looking it up on the internet. The boot menu will let you select the drive you want to boot from.

 

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by the way, quote or mention me if you want me to see your answers - I saw this by chance because I still had the page open

That worked! Thank you.

[paddy-stone]

Personally I don't bother with dual boot systems anymore, instead use VMs, but it depends on what exactly you want to do on the guest OS (VMs), and if you have enough hardware resources to do what you want, eg CPU cores/threads, RAM and so on.