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). I checked again after doing a full reinstall of Win-7. Furthermore, by using a system analysis program (HWinfo64), I see a listing "UEFI boot: not present." I could only get this when the bios was set to Legacy Support because Win-7 would not boot at all if I disabled the option (i.e., tried to use UEFI). After the reinstall, only the MS bootloader is known to the system; the Linux disks are not seen. The arguments and rationale above that I must be booting with UEFI certainly make sense. They are what we would expect. But there is an alternative: that the code and procedures on the Linux 13.2 install disk have bugs such that they do not correctly see (or interpret) the bios configuration, or that there is an assumption that all boots must be under UEFI with gpart partitioning. The evidence seems to point to this altermnative, and that leaves me very much concerned. Along with the reinstall, I also updated the BIOS firmware to the latest version. The main change pertained to Win-8 (encryption on hard disks), which was irrelevant to me. The only change was that booting to Win-7 in UEFI mode now fails entirely. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org