https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894146 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894146#c1 Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bwiedemann@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |rw@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | --- Comment #1 from Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> 2014-09-02 04:42:57 CEST --- Hi Scott, the problem is that there are machines built, that have UEFI instead of the classic BIOS and the only way for those to boot is from such a FAT partition, except if the vendor spent extra money on a legacy-compat module (and some don't) I'm not sure how the method of booting can influence the stability of the system maybe through differences in ACPI which vendors usually test with MSWindows and even add hacks for it and it might be worth debugging those instabilities but for that, we would need further info about the type of hardware - e.g. attach output from hwinfo --all and how those instabilities show up, kernel messages during hangup, etc You could also try the openSUSE Factory version, which is much newer than 13.1 so could have fixes for these issues and even if not, it would be easier+faster to get fixes into it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.