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*** You need the BIOS one. That's the problem. ***
How do I get the BIOS one to load? When booting into Windows, there is no BIOS prompt, and if I hit delete when the boot starts, I get Windows Boot Manager, where the only choices are Windows 7 and Windows Memory Diagnostic: none of the usual BIOS options.
The above partition table, with Windows 7, has to be booted in BIOS
mode. Be sure that your bios is set accordingly (legacy, probably). If the installation disk boots in EFI mode, it expects a GPT partition table, which it does not see, and thus wants to delete it all.
Current partition table: Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x5b171916 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 411647 409600 200M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 411648 450545663 450134016 214.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 950804480 976771071 25966592 12.4G 12 Compaq diagnostics It was suggested that I partition the free space first (with g-parted, e.g.) before installing openSUSE, but if you are right about UEFI/BIOS, with that work? - -- St John the Baptist Catholic Church, Bridgeport (formerly St Michael's & Bl J.H. Newman) Fr David Ousley 502 Ford Street Bridgeport, PA 19405 215-247-1092 www.sjbbridgeport.org dao@anglicanphiladelphia.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJYIQvfAAoJEPpKlOdMB7Kt300P/1IsWjJEVv3d7SU+4NACTBHe 3g7QZqqgHPLw5kNWnFTJPZPH5+kThUV5A6gyKaYKz6wYCiukw037Rd4VB7y5PQET g+YMWcLYihTVA2ZVNqlU8aCiAEi0X2U//7SYZFdjVmVwZHW0lDMeAIiy75C7Req1 7HuKhCn0xXqFzGkT2llDo2NxdYQo03N06FGaAnYszJD1+cpK9s+BXugoEvppfhEx nOyr3cCGXUInhvMKM+IZBDwDE9wUQ5syaOkP70Tn0QDoGjC2iJ5Q20vLohT1Esjq zjhxrpi+2WeZz4aCWcKpbM3SectLfqRA80dHStQOn8XuarhjxW3JnMfa485ymkMC ejiiQgQveCX90ufJ8jTz+EVwsvZwpzDdUMm8u4R9SYGpO7fTYG3XlnNbQoS4WmMe u43C7Nb41rJfvj1ai4rCerv2gKm2l2UWIo7dRsSMFpZ2g/Wiewcvk0zqoQOykceq Xfdk9QOY+JbVCieslU6XQ0wBL21yyve4VC0Z771mzBr01uOzStHjh0F11Xe9Gskv NMvuQD732AXkqIBl6ExqUmANdGW1eHtzlu8HCaS10Vu+RkjZC5omm3y2qgctglvd V+eAd+3W1bHSqajGw3Tt/vDG3Y8FTQKAbcUQwCGqWcSkU7K1+izWqJYntVpzOtvA yUkbkHdHG/cJE2AhXm7Q =RmOT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org