On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote:

Hello,

SLES 11

... or openSUSE since 11.1.

Please can any tell and help me to create the EFI boot disks in the Readme /boot /x86_64 the example is not working ?

I'm not aware that we support booting via EFI from (floppy) disks. Or do you mean something else?

Also the Support README in Novell forum is not working, on the DVD is no EFI boot option ?

Not sure what you mean. The DVD will boot via EFI on EFI systems and via legacy BIOS otherwise. Systems with both EFI & legacy BIOS _might_ (but don't need to) present you a dialog to select. Steffen -- Das Nichtrauchen entfernt uns von der Zivilisation und setzt den Mann mit seinem Dackel gleich. -- J. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Linda Walsh wrote:

Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:

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The DVD will boot via EFI on EFI systems and via legacy BIOS otherwise. Systems with both EFI & legacy BIOS _might_ (but don't need to) present you a dialog to select.

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So you are saying that if the user can disable their bios's legacy boot support, then SUSE will boot using EFI.

You normally don't have to actually disable it but set the boot priority to try efi first. But basically, yes.

What's the advantage (or disadvantage) of going with EFI boot

Does a falling tree make a sound if nobody hears it? ;-) Steffen -- Das Nichtrauchen entfernt uns von der Zivilisation und setzt den Mann mit seinem Dackel gleich. -- J. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On 2010/01/20 20:47 (GMT-0800) Linda Walsh composed:

Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:

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You normally don't have to actually disable it but set the boot priority to try efi first. But basically, yes.

Wouldn't that depend on one's bios? In my Dell I can choose for EFI boot or legacy.

When I choose EFI, the suse 11.2 DVD doesn't boot. Is it supposed to?

I wouldn't expect to boot EFI if I didn't have any HDs with EFI compatible partitioning. Does yours? -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Linda Walsh wrote:

Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:

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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Linda Walsh wrote:

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Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:

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The DVD will boot via EFI on EFI systems and via legacy BIOS otherwise. Systems with both EFI & legacy BIOS _might_ (but don't need to) present you a dialog to select.

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So you are saying that if the user can disable their bios's legacy boot support, then SUSE will boot using EFI.

You normally don't have to actually disable it but set the boot priority to try efi first. But basically, yes.

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Wouldn't that depend on one's bios? In my Dell I can choose for EFI boot or legacy.

When I choose EFI, the suse 11.2 DVD doesn't boot. Is it supposed to?

Ok, the situation is a bit more confusing than I thought. :-( The theory is that since oS 11.1 all x64-64 boot media should also be EFI bootable. I've looked into it and what we really have is: - oS 11.1 x86-64 4GB-DVD & NET-ISO work - oS 11.2 media do have an EFI boot image (/boot/x86_64/efi) but don't work due to a KIWI bug (that got fixed yesterday, AFAIK) - oS 11.3 previews: not yet but should start to work once the new KIWI is used Steffen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org