On 01/05/2015 01:02 AM, Joseph Comfort wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Neil Rickert wrote:
On 01/04/2015 01:21 PM, Joseph Comfort wrote:
Problem 1: Booting the downloaded os 13.2 DVD, there are no entries for either 'Boot installed system' or for 'memtest.'
I'm pretty sure that you booted the DVD in UEFI mode rather than legacy mode. And that is the cause of your problems.
If you want to only use legacy mode, then you must disable UEFI mode in the BIOS settings. Otherwise there are two ways of booting the DVD (and other install media). One of my UEFI boxes will list both as boot choices when I hit F12 during boot. My other UEFI box will only list one, depending on my BIOS settings.
Booting the install media in UEFI mode, there is no option to boot the installed system and no memory check option. The installer will select "grub2-efi", will want "/boot/efi", and may well repartition your drive with GPT partitioning. If you had booted in legacy mode, then the option to boot the installed system would be there, and so would the memory check option. And no "/boot/efi" would have been configured.
There seems to be agreement that I must be booting in UEFI mode. But as I wrote, the behavior is independent on whether I set the BIOS to use Legacy Support (bios) or not (UEFI).
This is 1000% dependent on the bootloader in the firmware. You have a whole operating system in UEFI, whether it is in legacy mode or not. Some presentation is made to you as to what it might do, according to the coding of the boot loader from the firmware, which reads file systems by itself. This makes all the new UEFI loaders, again, whether in legacy mode or not, a handle to deal with. In addition to that, Windows adds levels to the booting process. You said that you could load windows until you reinstalled it. If that is the case, a windows boot loader has to be your boot loader. What it is doing when it reads your dvd is anyones guess. For more on this see http://nylxs.com/docs/grad_school/arch/uefi_pages.txt http://nylxs.com/docs/grad_school/uefi/page1.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org