On 01/06/2015 03:30 PM, Joseph Comfort wrote:
The first thread got off track. I need a new one.
I'm not quoting all of that. I'll rely on readers looking at the original. Since your earlier mail, there has been a forum thread with another user finding that the installer booted in UEFI mode. So you have company, if that helps. Just to be clear, this problem is not in any way a bug in the install media. Doubtless there are bugs there. However, how the media is booted is entirely dependent on the firmware (or BIOS). By the time the first opensuse provided instruction runs, it has already been decided by the firmware whether to boot with UEFI or Legacy. If you cannot find a BIOS setting to force a legacy boot, then you will have to live with that. On the positive side, your system should be able to boot from a USB flash drive. Copy the iso to a flash drive. You can use "dd" on linux or some version of ImageWriter. What worked in the other case, and should also work for you, was: Take that USB, and look at it on a linux system. Use "fdisk" (linux version). There will be two partitions. The first will be a small EFI partition. Delete that partition in "fdisk" and save the result. Do not change anything thing else. Then, if you can boot that USB, it will only be able to boot in Legacy mode. So that should allow you to install as you want. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org